Of course, since the US is arguably in kleptocratic oligarchy-mode like the late Roman Republic, it might not have been possible.    From Wordnik.com.  [Matthew Yglesias » Luce & Machiavelli on Leadership] Reference

Most US citizens are just now beginning to grasp how completely all institutions in their state have passed into the hands of the corporate, "kleptocratic" elites.    From Wordnik.com.  [No responsible leader can afford to ignore the implosion of US democracy] Reference

Down with the corrupt Democratic/kleptocratic party.    From Wordnik.com.  [Matthew Yglesias » Bad Scene, Everyone’s Fault] Reference

This was one of the factors that enabled kleptocratic ruler.    From Wordnik.com.  [ANC Daily News Briefing] Reference

Washington abandoned its support for the kleptocratic dictator.    From Wordnik.com.  [ANC Daily News Briefing] Reference

Now we will see a contest between his equally unsavory kleptocratic rivals.    From Wordnik.com.  [Musharraf's Fall Highlights Failed Foreign Policy Model] Reference

However kleptocratic his regime, it also improved the lots of millions of Indonesians.    From Wordnik.com.  [The Other Asian Time Bomb] Reference

We care more about having Summits and being nice to bloodthirsty and kleptocratic dictators.    From Wordnik.com.  [Archive 2007-11-01] Reference

The result feels more like kleptocratic Uzbekistan than it does a healthy capitalist society.    From Wordnik.com.  [Paul Jenkins: The Dead Core of McCain's Republican Party] Reference

Because "a kleptocratic class (took) over the economy," according to economist Michael Hudson.    From Wordnik.com.  [The October Surprise - Global Panic] Reference

You can look at Mexico, Zimbabwe, Russia, and see that kleptocratic governments are everywhere.    From Wordnik.com.  [EPA Lets Miners Dump In Waterways] Reference

For the U.S., development is operationally defined as dumping aid money into a kleptocratic economy.    From Wordnik.com.  [Alemayehu G. Mariam: Reflections on Thanksgiving in America] Reference

Under a kleptocratic dictatorship, Washington's ally, President Mobutu Sese Seko, looted state coffers.    From Wordnik.com.  [Impoverished Congo Marks 50 Years Of Independence] Reference

Moyo argues that aid helps create kleptocratic governments in which powerful elites embezzle public revenues.    From Wordnik.com.  [Alemayehu G. Mariam: Ethiopia: Speaking Truth to Strangers] Reference

For Congo, all but destroyed by 30 years of Mobutu Sese Seko's kleptocratic rule, this is one ordeal too many.    From Wordnik.com.  [Making The Same Mistakes] Reference

Unfortunately, the security forces and Ministry of Mines are overseen by Mugabe's kleptocratic party (ZANU-PF).    From Wordnik.com.  [Ben Leo: Kimberley Process Keeps the Door Open for Zimbabwean Democracy] Reference

The poor will disproportionately suffer while the rich will sleep the untroubled sleep of the kleptocratic class.    From Wordnik.com.  [Midterm Elections 2006: It's Always Darkest, Right Before ... It Goes Completely Black] Reference

Ugandan army commander Gen. Idi Amin seized power from Obote, leading to a kleptocratic, anarchic military regime.    From Wordnik.com.  [1963, Oct 9] Reference

Are they covering for the murderous, hypocritical, kleptocratic nature of regimes such as Hugo Chavez in Venezuela?.    From Wordnik.com.  [Burmese Tragedy's Philosophical Roots] Reference

Here, there is the added and larger problem of kleptocratic officials skimming off money to fund their own lifestyles.    From Wordnik.com.  [Gordon Brown, Charlie Whelan and Me] Reference

(By the way, left wing governments tend to be kleptocratic too – they just make payoffs to different constituencies.).    From Wordnik.com.  [The Volokh Conspiracy » Venezuela] Reference

They subsidise neo-national socialist stupidity like that in Argentina and despotic kleptocratic regimes across the globe.    From Wordnik.com.  [Balloon Juice » 2002 » January] Reference

African nations after a rebellion broke out in 1998, two years after another rebellion toppled the kleptocratic regime of Mobutu.    From Wordnik.com.  [ANC Daily News Briefing] Reference

Dr Haunt wants to believe that the founding fathers sought a kleptocratic governance controlled by parasites in DC and wall street.    From Wordnik.com.  [Think Progress » Rove Falsely Claims Bush Administration Never Said Iraqi Oil Revenue Would Help Pay For War] Reference

Zaire, where rebels rose up in 1998, less than a year after rebel leader Laurent Kabila ousted the kleptocratic dictator Mobutu Sese.    From Wordnik.com.  [ANC Daily News Briefing] Reference

What is the defense against a military and Blackwater under the control of a kleptocratic state except an unorganized citizen militia?.    From Wordnik.com.  [Balkinization] Reference

Bemba had been the Mobutu's financial adviser to the kleptocratic Mobutu, who spirited billions of dollars out of the mineral-rich country.    From Wordnik.com.  [ANC Daily News Briefing] Reference

The Republicans repeated and embroidered and rested their case on that lie and those kleptocratic policies that left our government reeling.    From Wordnik.com.  [G.O.P. in Exile?] Reference

Is it because Big Oil would no longer need to have the US government prop up totalitarian kleptocratic puppet dictators like the House of Saud?.    From Wordnik.com.  [Matthew Yglesias » Edwards Speech] Reference

If corporations collude with kleptocratic states, they can enrich themselves at the expense of the poor and disenfranchised in those countries.    From Wordnik.com.  [Real World Economics -- Protectionism Is Not Always Wrong] Reference

A number of judges have gotten caught up in Mugabe's crimes and have become corrupt; they're kleptocratic and have amassed various farms and other assets.    From Wordnik.com.  [Life in Mugabe-ville] Reference

The DRC's infrastructure was left in ruins by the late kleptocratic dictator Mobutu Sese Seko, who was ousted from office in May 1997 by then rebel leader Laurent Kabila.    From Wordnik.com.  [ANC Daily News Briefing] Reference

Except this is a quadrillion dollar megilla that can't be covered without unraveling the entire capitalistic system, and its fascist corpocracy and kleptocratic oligarchy.    From Wordnik.com.  [The PRE-PLANNED Financial/Economic 911 of 2008] Reference

He says a "kleptocratic class has taken over the economy to replace industrial capitalism .... 'banksers'" for FDR and earlier condemned by Jefferson with this stinging comment.    From Wordnik.com.  [Grand Theft America] Reference

Afghanistan, it wouldn't make the lives of Afghans -- the average Afghan in the street much better because the -- the money would be stolen by the -- its kleptocratic government.    From Wordnik.com.  [The Business of America] Reference

The devastation they have wrought on lives and communities is further exacerbated by their relentless corruption of government at all levels into a kleptocratic source of revenue.    From Wordnik.com.  [Marcella Mroczkowski: Danger! Empathy and Psychopathy as Competing Value Systems in Politics and Economics] Reference