It might be just enough to make him a power broker, to give him influence.
My vote for villain is Larry Sonsini, the Silicon Valley lawyer and power broker.
But the real power broker in the national security transition may be Jones, a retired Marine Corps four-star general.
He has now written a book called Resolve and Fortitude: Microsoft's "Secret Power Broker", which details his 20 years at Microsoft.
Other possibles include Derby runner-up Golden Soul, Mylute (fifth in the Derby, third in the Preakness), Freedom Child, Power Broker and Code West.
Russian dissident Boris Berezovsky was a former Kremlin power broker whose fortunes went into dramatic decline as Vladimir Putin established himself as Russian president.
He in many ways defined what it meant to be a Russian oligarch, becoming a power broker, political operator and businessman all at once.
Lopez had long been a Democratic power broker in his borough.
As one of the few financial victors in online news media, she is also a de facto policy maker and a new kind of power broker.
If that happens he will be a power broker - he is promising a referendum on the euro and believes the current austerity measures are ruining Italy.
And regardless of which of the many scenarios materialize after Karzai's current (and final) presidential term ends, one thing is clear: he will remain a major power broker in Afghanistan.
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Ozawa still controls the largest block of DPJ votes and continues to act as pre-eminent power broker, despite having had his party membership suspended as punishment for campaign finance law violations.
He was known for his unflagging support of the state's national laboratories and military installations, and he became a power broker for his work on the federal budget and energy policy.
Mr Ahmadinejad accused all three challengers of ganging up on him, insinuating that they were in the pay of Akbar Hashemi Rafsanjani, a cleric and former president, but has long been a behind-the-scenes power broker.
The Hollywood power broker has lately turned his marketing skills on China, which is expected to surpass the U.S. box office by the end of the decade, driven by a boom in cinemas across the country.
As leaked to the New York Times and Wall Street Journal this morning, Wall Street and Washington power broker Steven Rattner appears on the verge of walking away from a multi-million bribery scandal with a wrist-slap.
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Many believe, however, that Gingrich has been replaced as the Capitol's top GOP power broker by Senate Majority Leader Trent Lott (R-Miss.), who told the GOPAC gathering on Monday that tax cuts will be high on the legislative agenda.
Mr Putin, the best-connected power broker of them all, said last week that he would not enter into any bargains to limit the Yukos investigation, but neither would he extend it into a broader campaign against those who got rich in the 1990s.
Compared with the prime minister, an economics professor, Mr Berlusconi looks every inch the professional Roman power-broker.
Yet even in the tech industry shared leadership works best when there is a power-broker behind the scenes.
He established himself as a power-broker in the hawkish party rather than a star in his own right.
Another, the controversial godman and power-broker Chandraswami, said he could not recall what happened around the time of the assassination.
The Baillie of Spynie, John Innes, a local power-broker signed her up.
"Fast track" authority gives the president unbridled power to broker trade agreements, which are then subject to an up or down vote by Congress.
He eventually handed the job to Daim Zainuddin, a wealthy power-broker and long-time ally who had helped to devise the controls as part of a wider recovery plan.
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The episode underlines Russia's continuing role as a regional power-broker.
Mr Prescott's role as a power-broker and counsellor smoothed the often strained relationship between Tony Blair and Gordon Brown and also helped ensure a trouble-free transition from one leader to the other.
For Democrats in the state, the ultimate humiliation came when the last great Democratic power-broker, the former lieutenant-governor Bob Bullock, who had dominated Texas politics for four decades, threw his support behind Mr Bush.
His approval ratings have dipped, and the Washington power-broker has been spending rather more time in Texas than he used to: opening a new office, announcing money for new roads, posing for photographs to celebrate federal funding for new military hardware.
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