If you had the height, you controlled the battle.

The situation is under full control.

Your hands already know too much.

'We're in control, and we have what we want!'

When you are wrestling for possession of a sword, the man with the handle always wins.

In politics, strangely enough, the best way to play your cards is to lay them face upwards on the table.

From Ibn 'Umar is that the Messenger of Allah, may Allah bless him and grant him peace, stated while he was on the minbar, "The upper hand is better than the lower hand. The upper hand is the one which spends and the lower is the beggar's."

Never had I understood that I command, with absolute authority, the ship of my life! I decide its mission and rules and discipline, at my word waits every tool and sail, every cannon, the strength of every soul on board. I’m master of a team of passionate skills to sail me through hell’s own jaws the second I nod the direction to steer.

The bosses of the Democratic party and the bosses of the Republican party alike have a closer grip than ever before on the party machines in the States and in the Nation. This crooked control of both the old parties by the beneficiaries of political and business privilege renders it hopeless to expect any far-reaching and fundamental service from either.

Great is the hand that holds dominion over
Man by a scribbled name.

Elites control money and mass media, but crowd funding and social media now dominant.

The hand that gives is above the hand that takes. (La main qui donne est au-dessus de celle qui reçoit.)

Tactics flow from a positionally superior game.

The real power lies in the hands of the holders of the Mass Media.