And if I may flame a little here, power is also the quality of not being affected by your own stupidity (see, Bush, George W.; Enron, executive board of)
Seriously, if you don't have to pay for your own mistakes and other people do instead, THAT'S power!
All my fight strategy is based on deliberately injuring my opponents. -
Crippled Avenger
"It is the same in all wars; the soldiers do the fighting, the journalists do the shouting, and no true patriot ever get near a front-line trench, except on the briefest of propoganda visits...Perhaps when the next great war comes we may see that sight unprecendented in all history, a jingo with a bullet-hole in him."
First you get good, then you get fast, then you get good and fast.