[fghorow]

Joseph Stalin said some version of "It's not the people who vote that count, it's the people who count the votes."

(Mixed rating, according to Snopes.)

[andreygrehov]

'I care not who casts the votes of a nation, provided I can count them,' Napoleon failed to remark." — New York Times editorial (26 May 1880) [0].

[0] https://www.nytimes.com/1880/05/26/archives/imperialism.html

[DavidWoof]

Snopes has this as mixed because Stalin may or may not have expressed this sentiment at some point, but it seems impossibly unlikely to me that this pun works in Russian as it does in English.