COOPER: His reign of corruption would last three decades, spawning the term kleptocracy, rule by thieves.    From Wordnik.com.  [CNN Transcript Oct 3, 2006] Reference

ANDERSON: His reign of corruption would last three decades, spawning the term kleptocracy, rule by thieves.    From Wordnik.com.  [CNN Transcript Oct 7, 2006] Reference

Yemen has been called a kleptocracy-a government of, by and for thieves.    From Wordnik.com. Reference

Or turning into a southern European kleptocracy is much more of something I’d worry about.    From Wordnik.com.  [Matthew Yglesias » McConnell Warns of American Dystopia — More Equality, Less Poverty, Longer Life Expectancy] Reference

When we used the word "kleptocracy," - John asked for a definition.    From Wordnik.com.  [A Blogger's Desperate Call for Backup] Reference

The cable refers to Moscow as a "kleptocracy" with the Kremlin and Prime Minister Vladimir Putin at the center.    From Wordnik.com.  [Fury Mounts as WikiLeaks Reveals More Secrets] Reference

Not an original word, kleftocracy, but similar to "kleptocracy" and used to describe the Noriega government in Panama. by.    From Wordnik.com.  [A Goverment of Liars Must Be Brought Down] Reference

But what we have is the kind of kleptocracy I expect in Zimbabwe.    From Wordnik.com.  [Ace of Spades HQ] Reference

She denounced her own government as a '' kleptocracy '' - government by thieves.    From Wordnik.com.  [News/local from www.chieftain.com] Reference

Economist Michael Hudson didn't expect American capitalism to become a "kleptocracy" with.    From Wordnik.com. Reference

"kleptocracy" and become a source of wealth, peace and stability.    From Wordnik.com.  [ANC Daily News Briefing] Reference

"kleptocracy" in describing Paulson's actions, and (3) thinks it is a Good Idea is lying or selling something.    From Wordnik.com.  [Angry Bear] Reference

It's called a kleptocracy because it klepts.    From Wordnik.com.  [Corrente] Reference

This is not a market economy; it is a kleptocracy.    From Wordnik.com.  [Dr. Peter Rost: Is It Wrong to Make a Lot of Money?] Reference

Unchecked, Mexico could descend into a kleptocracy.    From Wordnik.com.  [Diane Francis: Is Mexico the Next Crisis?] Reference

We have survived autocracy, despotism and kleptocracy.    From Wordnik.com.  [Alemayehu G. Mariam: Ethiopia: The Future of the Future Country, Part I] Reference

COOPER: Because, I mean, for 30 years plus, it's been a kleptocracy.    From Wordnik.com.  [CNN Transcript Oct 4, 2006] Reference

"They'll become a part of the kleptocracy, just like the other guys.".    From Wordnik.com.  [Sunnis Change Course] Reference

He's got to change from running a kleptocracy to running a decent government.    From Wordnik.com.  [CNN Transcript Dec 2, 2009] Reference

Instead of a democracy, what has been born in Iraq, he says, is a kleptocracy.    From Wordnik.com.  [As Iraq's New Parliament Meets, A Bad Rep Lingers] Reference

I don't think that people realize that Mexico is nothing but a narco-kleptocracy.    From Wordnik.com.  [CNN Transcript Feb 20, 2007] Reference

This is because the country, under Hugo Chavez, has descended into a kleptocracy.    From Wordnik.com.  [Diane Francis: Venezuela's Moscow Maneuvers] Reference

This institutionalised kleptocracy is ossified in the hands of the Nazarbayev family.    From Wordnik.com.  [James Love: Wisdom of Selling a Piece of Westinghouse to Kazakhstan] Reference

Nigeria's business-promotion efforts, for example, built a kleptocracy inured to poverty.    From Wordnik.com.  [A Good Life For a Few] Reference

I could say to my kids, in America we don't have a monarchy or single-family kleptocracy.    From Wordnik.com.  [Nevada Teachers' Union Sues To Stop Workers Caucusing On Las Vegas Strip] Reference

If anything, it has been misconstrued by the Zimbabwean kleptocracy as another expression of appeasement.    From Wordnik.com.  [ANC Daily News Briefing] Reference

Putin might be leading a group of people who were kind of bankrupting Russia, taking money, a kleptocracy.    From Wordnik.com.  [CNN Transcript May 24, 2002] Reference

But I do have a word to offer describing the people who favor the false arguments of the kleptocracy: Suckers.    From Wordnik.com.  [Bill Lasarow: The Complementary Wings of the Republican Party] Reference

The leading ally of our freedom-loving president in the Muslim world is Saudi Arabia, which is ruled by a kleptocracy.    From Wordnik.com.  [A False Choice Between Human Rights and Security] Reference

With potential protestors clamped down, he can put a gloss on seven years of illegal, disastrous policy and kleptocracy.    From Wordnik.com.  [Nina Burleigh: Suspect Spotted in Abu Dhabi, Considered Armed and Dangerous] Reference

The PLO should declare independence and go about the business of turning its corrupt kleptocracy into a functioning state.    From Wordnik.com.  [The Middle East After Arafat...] Reference

General Mobutu Sese Seko staged a coup in 1965, renamed the country Zaire and set up a dictatorial kleptocracy for 32 years.    From Wordnik.com.  [ANC Daily News Briefing] Reference

The Niger Delta is at the other end of the Nigerian government that has been an oligarchy -- some people use the word kleptocracy.    From Wordnik.com.  [CNN Transcript May 24, 2008] Reference

You could argue that it became a kleptocracy, you know, rich people getting richer and taking over the industries of the old Soviet Union.    From Wordnik.com.  [CNN Transcript Apr 23, 2007] Reference

The Republicans under the tutelage of Unkle Karl will no doubt be eager to join you and strive for the removal of his kleptocracy as well.    From Wordnik.com.  [Election Central | Talking Points Memo | Election Central Saturday Roundup] Reference