[He's silent for a little, thinking.] ...Of course I am. How am I limiting myself? I told you, I know there's more to me than people like the Doctor see.

I'm not a tyrant. [He shifts uncomfortably.] How would someone like Braxiatel even know? He wasn't actually there. We had a vote for both the Final Sanction and, later, breaking out of the Time Lock. Were I a tyrant, I doubt I would have held them. So why should I doubt?

And I am not being taken over by anything.