Famous quotes containing the words voting and/or power:
“It’s not the voting that’s democracy, it’s the counting.”
—Tom Stoppard (b. 1937)
“A photo of someone else’s childhood,
a garden in another country—world
he had no part in and has no power to imagine:
yet the old man who has failed his memory
keens over the picture— ‘Them happy days—
gone—gone for ever!’”
—Denise Levertov (b. 1923)