“The oligarch helps the politician win elections through the normal legal machinery of the mass media.”

“Flanked by a coterie of burly henchmen, the Russian oligarch promptly takes to one of the pitches intent on some shooting practice.”

“The sense of individual identity of the oligarch is entirely located in the social structure of the oligarchy itself.”

“As you all know, General Fabyein has made plans to abolish the oligarchy and take control of Hilajinn.”

“Your goal is to radically transform our constitutional republic into a judicial oligarchy operated by individuals with a leftist agenda.”

“The leaders of the party and its principal organizations now formed a new oligarchy of privileged citizens.”

“Businesses created by the Internet are undermining the control of traditional business-government oligarchies.”

“They were ruled by oligarchies or councils of elders, or some mixture of the two, and might therefore best be called tribal republics.”

“But Sparta, the champion of oligarchies, set up an oligarchical regime whenever it took control of a city.”

“Until late 1999, moreover, almost none of the oligarchs had done much to restructure or improve the assets they had acquired from the state.”

“Putin has the opportunity to put an end to a number of Russian oligarchs, or at least to radically diminish their pernicious political role.”

“Oligarchs come, oligarchs go, but the true fan can never switch allegiance.”