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One tends to think that Putin is this diabolical man who controls all the things inside and outside of the Kremlin. That’s kind of true. He definitely has a lot of power over state agencies. He has a lot of power over business enterprises throughout the country and therefore the wealth of the country, but there’s something deeper here. Russia’s oligarchy, its mafia class and its security class have started to fuse to the point where you cannot untangle them from each other and they need each other. – Candace Rondeaux	Found on CNN 1 year ago
If you prefer democracy to oligarchy, if you prefer real debates about issues that actually matter, it’s pretty refreshing to see it. – Sean Hannity	Found on CNN 1 year ago
[I]f we won’t choose to pay the price of liberty, then by default we shall suffer the cost of servitude -- whether it be the iron chains of a tyrannical oligarchy or the regulatory chains of unelected, faceless bureaucrats. When we witness our neighbors abused by tyrants, will we skulk away and hope we’re not next? Or will we stand by them and challenge -- as freedom-loving Americans -- the tyranny of lawless leaders. – Phil Trieb	added by Normando 4 years ago
America is supposed to be a democracy, not an oligarchy. Our leaders are supposed to come from the ranks of the people and represent the needs of the people. – Bernie Sanders	Found on CNN 4 years ago
Now it's just an oligarchy with unlimited political bribery. – Jimmy Carter	Found on CNN 6 years ago
It will tell people what I have been saying for a long time, is that this country is moving away from democracy to oligarchy; that billionaires are the people who are controlling our political life. – Bernie Sanders	Found on CNN 8 years ago
You are not looking at democracy, you are looking at oligarchy -- and we have got to change that, i do not exaggerate when I tell you that the foundations of American democracy are being undermined. – Bernie Sanders	Found on CNN 8 years ago
At the start of this year the parasitical oligarchy ambushed us but we and the people are responding. – Nicolas Maduro	Found on Reuters 9 years ago
Tradition means giving votes to the most obscure of all classes, our ancestors. It is the democracy of the dead. Tradition refuses to submit to the small and arrogant oligarchy of those who merely happen to be walking about. – G. K. Chesterton, Orthodoxy	added by anonymous 13 years ago

One tends to think that Putin is this diabolical man who controls all the things inside and outside of the Kremlin. That’s kind of true. He definitely has a lot of power over state agencies. He has a lot of power over business enterprises throughout the country and therefore the wealth of the country, but there’s something deeper here. Russia’s oligarchy, its mafia class and its security class have started to fuse to the point where you cannot untangle them from each other and they need each other.

– Candace Rondeaux

Found on CNN
1 year ago

If you prefer democracy to oligarchy, if you prefer real debates about issues that actually matter, it’s pretty refreshing to see it.

– Sean Hannity

Found on CNN
1 year ago

[I]f we won’t choose to pay the price of liberty, then by default we shall suffer the cost of servitude -- whether it be the iron chains of a tyrannical oligarchy or the regulatory chains of unelected, faceless bureaucrats. When we witness our neighbors abused by tyrants, will we skulk away and hope we’re not next? Or will we stand by them and challenge -- as freedom-loving Americans -- the tyranny of lawless leaders.

– Phil Trieb

added by Normando
4 years ago

America is supposed to be a democracy, not an oligarchy. Our leaders are supposed to come from the ranks of the people and represent the needs of the people.

– Bernie Sanders

Found on CNN
4 years ago

Now it's just an oligarchy with unlimited political bribery.

– Jimmy Carter

Found on CNN
6 years ago

It will tell people what I have been saying for a long time, is that this country is moving away from democracy to oligarchy; that billionaires are the people who are controlling our political life.

– Bernie Sanders

Found on CNN
8 years ago

You are not looking at democracy, you are looking at oligarchy -- and we have got to change that, i do not exaggerate when I tell you that the foundations of American democracy are being undermined.

– Bernie Sanders

Found on CNN
8 years ago

At the start of this year the parasitical oligarchy ambushed us but we and the people are responding.

– Nicolas Maduro

Found on Reuters
9 years ago

Tradition means giving votes to the most obscure of all classes, our ancestors. It is the democracy of the dead. Tradition refuses to submit to the small and arrogant oligarchy of those who merely happen to be walking about.

– G. K. Chesterton, Orthodoxy

added by anonymous
13 years ago

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