1.   It can be addictive, for power tends to corrupt and absolute power corrupts absolutely.

2.   Power tends to corrupt, and absolute power corrupts absolutely.

3.   They say power corrupts.

4.   Power corrupts and absolute power absolutely corrupts.

5.   And that power corrupts.

6.   And power does corrupt.

7.   As the addled, angry and childishly petulant Roote, Bryggman gives a blissful demonstration of how power not only corrupts but dements.

8.   Absolute power corrupts absolutely.

9.   Absolute power corrupts.

10.   But he was not corrupted by power.