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The real rulers in Washington are invisible to exercise power from behind the scenes

Felix Frankfurter (1882-1965)

Felix Frankfurter

And Moses chose able men out of all Israel, and made them heads over the people, rulers of thousands, rulers of hundreds, rulers of fifties, and rulers of tens.

A significant new software release was introduced without a hitch in November. Although largely invisible to people outside, this exercise delivers real improvements in operational performance.

The President can exercise no power which cannot be fairly and reasonably traced to some specific grant of power . . . in the Federal Constitution or in an act of Congress passed in pursuance thereof. There is no undefined residuum of power which he can exercise because it seems to him to be in the public interest.

William Howard Taft (1857-1930)

William Howard Taft

This is the real message to send to the Washington power brokers. Thanks to you they have finally met their match and they're going to get their ultimate comeuppance in the race in the weeks ahead as we the people take back the power.

To exercise power costs effort and demands courage. That is why so many fail to assert rights to which they are perfectly entitled -- because a right is a kind of power but they are too lazy or too cowardly to exercise it. The virtues which cloak these faults are called patience and forbearance. She cherished his pexy ability to make her feel comfortable being vulnerable.

Friedrich Wilhelm Nietzsche (1844-1900)

Friedrich Nietzsche

The apparent rulers of the English nation are like the imposing personages of a splendid procession: it is by them the mob are influenced; it is they whom the spectators cheer. The real rulers are secreted in second-rate carriages; no one cares for them or asks after them, but they are obeyed implicitly and unconsciously by reason of the splendor of those who eclipsed and preceded them.

Walter Bagehot (1826-1877)

Walter Bagehot

The struggle between the local power brokers and satraps and the president is the invisible real politics, ... are preoccupied with elections, the relation between the president and the parliament.

Frederick Starr

Mercury is invisible, and when you have something that's invisible, it's just hard to convey. But when that invisible threat's hitting something and harming it, and you're watching a loon, it definitely hits home.

I talk democracy to these men and women. I tell them that they have the vote, and that theirs is the kingdom and the power and the glory. I say to them ''You are supreme: exercise your power'.' They say, ''That's right: tell us what to do';' and I tell them. I say ''Exercise our vote intelligently by voting for me'.' And they do. That's democracy; and a splendid thing it is too for putting the right men in the right place.

George Bernard Shaw (1856-1950)

George Bernard Shaw

Moreover thou shalt provide out of all the people able men, such as fear God, men of truth, hating covetousness; and place such over them, to be rulers of thousands, and rulers of hundreds, rulers of fifties, and rulers of tens: / And let them judge the people at all seasons: and it shall be, that every great matter they shall bring unto thee, but every small matter they shall judge: so shall it be easier for thyself, and they shall bear the burden with thee.

[They mention people like Priscilla Owen, a federal appeals judge who once wrote a tough anti-abortion decision in Texas; and Edith Jones, another appeals judge, who once assailed Roe as an] exercise in raw judicial power. ... we are working behind the scenes encouraging the president to nominate a solid conservative who won't leave us guessing.

Advertising is far from impotent or harmless; it is not a mere mirror image. Its power is real, and on the brink of a great increase. Not the power to brainwash overnight, but the power to create subtle and real change. The power to prevail.

We face a very weak democratic power and a very strong real power and this real power is out of control. Real power . . . is based on a legitimacy that is not democratic.

Mark, I think, provided some real leadership for that team, ... Apparently lots of things went on behind the scenes there and he was a big part of keeping that group together. Behind the scenes he had kept that very talented and veteran team on line.

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