User blog comment:Fusedtwilight/Season 9 plot/@comment-24169020-20130517022713/@comment-1509826-20130517225340

I think he ment poltical power rather than actual powers, plus its not exactly clear if he was being truthful, he used that statement to explain why he could save sam from lucifers cage and was a lie. Out of curiousity, what is Crowley's great display of power, all I can think of its him causing a person to explode to prove a point, the majority of his use of power seem quite minor. His spell casting doesn't count as its not an inate power.