"It's always unfortunate when people in power start mixing politics with sports, " he said.
But actually you are the ones who give those people in power their power.
Dependent people use splitting to control people in power with tactics such as divide-and-conquer.
And that created an ever greater gulf between the people in power and the population.
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"The people in power were put there by fat cats, who have money and control, " Mr. Okun said.
People in power pick men for positions of power because they are afraid.
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Power is the key to change but also it tends to be temporary privilege for those people in power.
Rule-making would still require judgment, but it would be less subject to the whims of the people in power.
No one asks for scripts any longer, because the people in power have apparently become more comfortable with stand-up comedy.
People in power are always people in power, even when they have the best intentions and even when we live in a republic.
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So the next time people in power propose a new war -- and they will -- journalists need to ask some important questions.
Stern School of Business, was curious about these sorts of scenarios, so she put together an in-depth study of the extent to which people in power take advice from knowledgeable colleagues.
"There are people in positions in the criminal justice system who are supposed to be protecting us, there are people in power stopping cases getting through and blocking changes being made, " she said.
Quizzing politicians and people in power is straightforward.
The world never ends when you think it will, it just draws to a close faster when people in power are busy beating each other up and scoring points with news programs instead of getting serious about their jobs.
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China has opened up new economic, diplomatic and strategic avenues for African states, but it is ultimately down to Africans, both the people in power and the man on the street, to negotiate on their own terms, identify priorities, and leverage opportunities to further their own interests.
Bad people, in power, can redistribute as easily as good people.
Thus it is unlikely that any big changes would result if the same people are in power in Indonesia after the election.
Despite these worries, people in the power industry seem confident.
It may also explain why people in positions of power sometimes indulge in highly questionable behaviors, such as tweeting inappropriate messages or pictures of themselves.
Mrs Arroyo first took power in 2001 in a genuine people-power uprising, that succeeded in booting out another prodigiously corrupt president, Joseph Estrada.
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The revolution of 1789 in theory made the people sovereign yet in practice left power in the hands of an elite ruling in the people's name.
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The storm destroyed sandy stretches of land along the Jersey shore and gave many on Staten Island their own Katrina moment, with over 100 people confirmed dead (over 1, 000 people died in Hurricane Katrina in 2005) and roughly one million people still without power in the regions of southern Manhattan, the Island and parts of New Jersey.
Gino describes one of her studies in which she asked a group of people to write about situations in which other people had power over them.
Mr. SHAPIRO: And he's also totally non-intimidated by the political process and by people in positions of power.
Researchers investigated whether people in positions of power that hold high standards for others actually live up to those standards themselves.
And I think this is very representative of this current strand of people who are in power in Iran, President Ahmadinejad's cohorts.
It faces vigorous opposition from left-of-centre opponents the same people who were in power when the original deal was agreed on in 2007.
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