Plutocrat

Every movement of a United States plutocrat is recorded in the leading papers; every detail of his daughter's courtship and of her quarrels with her lover is described. ❋ Unknown (1910)

And when, later on, Leverett Whyland became less the "good citizen" and more the "plutocrat" -- a course perhaps inevitable under certain circumstances -- he would sometimes smile over those unsuccessful advances and would ask himself to what extent the discouraging unfaith of our Abner might be responsible for his choice and his fall. ❋ Henry Blake Fuller (1893)

One witty Occuprint poster depicts greed as a statue of the Monopoly game's iconic plutocrat, which is being toppled by a crowd the way monuments to Stalin and Saddam Hussein came down in recent memory. ❋ Unknown (2011)

The name Noah Cross suggests the loveable Old Testament patriarch, played in the 1966 blockbuster The Bible by John Huston, but here reprised in a less benevolent mode as a self-righteous plutocrat who has harnessed the floodin his owninterests. ❋ Philip French (2010)

The plutocrat class will likely keep growing regardless, unless China runs into bigger problems, such as a banking crisis. ❋ Peter Stein (2011)

The most likely GOP nominee, former Massachusetts Governor Mitt Romney, is a handsome version of that little plutocrat dude in a Monopoly game. ❋ MJ Rosenberg (2011)

Mr. Montefiore has a stake in the well-being of Jerusalem, as he is a descendent of the great early Zionist—the "plutocrat and Jewish philanthropist," Sir Moses Montefiore 1784-1865, who visited the holy city seven times and, in 1860, was the first to build outside the Old City. ❋ Paul Levy (2011)

Hey Sen. Ron, we know you are a wealthy plutocrat now, but we remember when you were a man of the people. ❋ Unknown (2009)

Crain finds Hoff's Mr. His, published under the name A. Redfield, to be a charming tale of a union-busting plutocrat, who presumably gets his comeuppance and may even learn a valuable lesson about life. ❋ Unknown (2009)

One of her guests could be the Arab plutocrat who helps to pay her salary. ❋ Unknown (2010)

Christopher Plummer is the family's smoothly expansive plutocrat. ❋ Joe Morgenstern (2011)

And if he wanted to confirm his image as a plutocrat in the voters minds, that was a fabulous way of doing it. ❋ Unknown (2011)

WASHINGTON -- In anticipation of Mitt Romney's set of fundraisers in New York City on Wednesday night, the Democratic National Committee is taking some extraordinary measures to hammer home their favorite frame: that the former governor is a plutocrat in Tea Party disguise. ❋ The Huffington Post News Editors (2011)

Say your name is "Dave Liberal," and you're running for the Senate against shadily-funded plutocrat-favorite Jason Putz. ❋ Ellis Weiner (2010)

One by one, the household of venerable plutocrat Paolo is seduced by this guest, who then abandons them to an awakened sense of their own emptiness. ❋ Brian Logan (2010)

Not a millionaire plutocrat pulling the strings behind the scenes. ❋ Unknown (2010)

Otherwise it was excellent.10.04pm: Here are the final thoughts of our guest guru Felix Salmon: The best, most compelling, and most passionate moment of this debate came when the candidates were given the opportunity to ask questions of each other, and John Huntsman eviscerated Mitt Romney as a strip-and-flip leveraged-buyout Wall Street plutocrat. ❋ Unknown (2011)

Plutocrats have a larger [control] over [the world] then [ever] before. ❋ Apexcp (2005)

A plutocrat, such as [Mitt Romney], believes "there are [47 percent] of the people who will vote for the president no matter what. All right, there are 47 percent who are with him, who are dependent upon government, who believe that they are victims, who believe the government has a responsibility to care for them, who believe that they are entitled to health care, to food, to housing, to you-name-it -- that that's an entitlement. And the government should give it to them. And they will vote for this president no matter what. ... These are people who pay no income tax. ... My job is not to worry about those people. I'll never convince them they should take [personal responsibility] and care for their lives." ❋ Zoroaster2001 (2012)

Plutocrat, [politicians] [for sale]. ❋ CommandoDude (2010)

Republicans and democrats have proven themselves to be [plutocratic pacifiers] with their unfounded war in Iraq, corporate bail outs and refusal to [reform] a corrupt financial system that destroyed [the American Dream] for millions of Americans. ❋ Wisdom Seeker (2015)

"[Jordan] is a plutocratic throwback; she's so old that she thinks there are actually [nine] planets in our [solar system]." ❋ Cehrazad (2010)

I think the one-percent use plutocratic skunkworks to [manipulate] the [federal government] and the [stock market] for their own benefit. ❋ Joecoolthefool (2016)

[The Republican Party] is no longer [the Grand] Old Party of [Lincoln], but rather is the GOP-God's Own Plutocrats ❋ MVCatdaddy (2018)