Indeed, to affect them he would have to act through large organizations himself and to use, to some extent, the very means used by those he seeks to control.
Mr. Gingrich's organization, beyond himself and his wife, Callista, has been tiny.
In a mangled turn of phrase that will perhaps resonate with critics who say that Mr. Assange has erased the line between the organization and himself, he promised his supporters, "My work will not be cowed".
For good reason: Mr. Toro, who oversees community affairs for the nonprofit organization, considers himself homeless and regularly sleeps on a couch in the group's Mott Haven office.
"Before this issue with ISAF, we already had enough problems in Afghanistan," Rahmatullah Merzayee, a manager at the Afghan Landmine Survivors' Organization, and himself a victim of a landmine, to which he lost both legs, told VICE News.
But Adel Muhsin, Mr. Maliki's coordinator of anticorruption organizations and himself the inspector general at the Health Ministry, said any suggestion that there had been political motivation for the dismissals was false.
After recent attacks on Yaoundé-based human rights organizations, Lembembe himself said, "There is no doubt: anti-gay thugs are targeting those who support equal rights on the basis of sexual orientation and gender identity.
But he did not agree with the followers of the socialist Henri de Saint-Simon, who held that workers should be paid according to their performance; he argued that justice would be satisfied only "when each one in accordance with the law written in some shape in his organization by God Himself, produces according to his faculties and consumes according to his wants".
This time, learning from that episode, he mounted a lavish campaign, organized a formidable grass-roots organization and positioned himself as the champion of the conservative wing of the Republican Party, with the help of stalwarts of the right like Phyllis Schlafly.
Mr. Neel knows something about freshening an organization, starting with himself.
Interview with & personality sketch of Sir John Cockcroft, the organization's director, himself a theoretical physicist.
