#politic

It is enough that the people know there was an election. The people who cast the votes decide nothing. The people who count the votes decide everything. ↗

— Joseph Stalin

#cast #count #decide #election #enough

Politics is perhaps the only profession for which no preparation is thought necessary. ↗

— Robert Louis Stevenson

#only #perhaps #politics #preparation #profession

In politics, as in poetry, it is sometimes true that it is darkest before dawn. ↗

— Lawrence Summers

#darkest #dawn #poetry #politics #sometimes

I wouldn't say I'm a political junkie. I follow it. I read a few articles every day. ↗

— Danny Strong

#day #every #every day #few #follow

After all is said that can be said upon the liquor traffic, its influence is degrading upon the individual, the family, politics and business, and upon everything that you touch in this old world. ↗

— Billy Sunday

#business #degrading #everything #family #individual

The crisis that the world finds itself in as it swings on the hinge of a new millennium is located in something deeper than particular ways of organizing political systems and economies. ↗

— Huston Smith

#deeper #economies #finds #hinge #itself

Well football teams are perhaps easier to control than political parties, I'm sure the Prime Minister would agree with me, but yeah I think every team needs discipline and a sense of self-belief and that's important, that's what leadership's all about. ↗

— Iain Duncan Smith

#agree #control #discipline #easier #every

The War on Drugs employs millions - politicians, bureaucrats, policemen, and now the military - that probably couldn't find a place for their dubious talents in a free market, unless they were to sell pencils from a tin cup on street corners. ↗

— L. Neil Smith

#corners #cup #dubious #employs #find

Telecom is a dramatic success in India and our view is, respecting the political process, and respecting the fact that these are sovereign decisions, is that, approaching India as a friend. ↗

— John W. Snow

#decisions #dramatic #fact #friend #india

Yet, it ought to be obvious that good music generally occupies a higher plane that mere politics. Great writers can express moods through melody and capture experiences we share most powerfully - love, lust, longing; joy, rage, fear; triumph, yearning and confusion. ↗

— Tony Snow

#confusion #experiences #express #fear #generally