"It becomes hard to help people who aren't in the catbird seat," he said.

If they paid too much to borrow their money "they're certainly not in the catbird seat," he said.

The leaders of revolutions that win always wind up in the catbird seat.

Maybe he's remembering that he still gets one more chance to sit in the catbird seat with other celebrities.

Hell, Russia and China were sitting in the catbird seat now.

It wasn't the civil rights movement alone that that put the Republicans in the catbird seat.

During Liberty Weekend, he said, "we were in the catbird seat."

THE oil-producing nations are finally sitting in the catbird seat again.

As long as we have those pages we're in the catbird seat."

"Thus leaving your crazy Hawk in the catbird seat."

"He's in the catbird seat," a Democratic officeholder conceded last spring.

A team in control was "in the catbird seat."

When he was in the catbird seat he made our lives miserable."

You're in the catbird seat out there, boy.

But far too many are simply in the catbird seat to take what is not decently theirs from people who cannot afford to be taken.

If we swing it, we'll be sitting pretty, 'In the catbird seat.'"

Howard Baker is sitting in the catbird seat.

"Sittin' in the catbird seat" - used when a player or team was performing exceptionally well.

The insubordinate was now in the catbird seat, and with a clear mandate: centralize the entire company.

No wonder Daniel Asia feels like a composer in the catbird seat.

"We're in the catbird seat here," said George Kaplan, the girls' soccer coach.

Even if not, it is maddening that BP still seems to think of itself, on some level, as being in the catbird seat.

But they are in the catbird seat for turning feelings and emotions into actions and intentions.

"He made a huge investment in this computer facility with the idea that the industry would consolidate and he'd be in the catbird seat."

Suddenly, with only seven directors left, Mr. Tow was in the catbird seat.