#count

I have no idea what goes on in another person's mind. As a legislator, I need to be good at persuading people, counting votes and getting to 50 percent plus one. I don't go back and say, 'Why did this person get to the right position?' It's only, 'Are you yes or are you no?' ↗

— Tammy Baldwin

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It is very nearly impossible... to become an educated person in a country so distrustful of the independent mind. ↗

— James A. Baldwin

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The company accountant is shy and retiring. He's shy a quarter of a million dollars. That's why he's retiring. ↗

— Milton Berle

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Only I can turn this country around. ↗

— Silvio Berlusconi

#country #i #i can #only #turn

I was never convinced that war was the best system to bring democracy to the country. ↗

— Silvio Berlusconi

#bring #convinced #country #democracy #i

President Bush in his inaugural address talked about bringing freedom to countries that don't have it. He didn't specify how. ↗

— Barbara Boxer

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Writers seldom choose as friends those self-contained characters who are never in trouble, never unhappy or ill, never make mistakes and always count their change when it is handed to them. ↗

— Catherine Drinker Bowen

#change #characters #choose #count #friends

When you make speeches you elicit expectations against which you will be held accountable. ↗

— Bill Bradley

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I've always been interested in the history of the West, our country and particularly as it relates to the Native Americans - the original Americans. ↗

— Beau Bridges

#been #country #history #i #interested

We need more theatres, more art and more culture in this country. ↗

— Richard Briers

#country #culture #more #need #theatres