Corruption Quote by David Grann

“others—angled for oil contracts and”

— Robert M. Gates

Oil is ancient wealth in the ground.

— Harold Hamm

“And it is precisely the determination to get rid of white rule which seems to be spreading like wild-fire over the brown world to-day.”

— T. Lothrop Stoddard

“A growing number of white Americans expressed alarm over the Osage’s wealth—outrage that was stoked by the press.”

— David Grann

“Money flows where attention goes.”

— Steven Aitchison

“The crooked guardians and administrators of Osage estates were typically among the most prominent white citizens:”

— David Grann

“The white people are crazy. They all want to be rich, same as we do, but they do not admit to themselves that you…

— Philipp Meyer

“What happened to the good old days when rich white men just bought their way into office?”

— Jennifer Crusie

“The Great Socialist himself is said to have embezzled one billion rupees from the Darkness, and transferred that money into a bank account in…

— Aravind Adiga

I decided to write the book to open the eyes of the people of how corrupt John D. Rockefeller company was and the unfair…

— Ida Tarbell

“The exploitations he had found so profitable he now attacked with the money he had made from them. He”

— Michael Crichton

“Connections, like treasury bonds, are issued to every rich white person upon exiting the womb. Whenever one of them gets high and crashes their…

— Mateo Askaripour