Quotes About Verification

ASSUME NOTHING, believe nothing, check everything—the ABC of policing.

I surreptitiously checked to make sure she hadn't left the plates facing the wrong way again.

The vetting complete,

So she called in. After first convincing several producers that she was, in fact, Soledad Ramirez, and had no intention of screaming "bababooey" live on air, they let

Believe none of what you hear and half of what you see.

Whether the story reflects the facts is obviously a different matter.

Having someone from Washington, California, or Chicago come in as a verifier, it shows the Hispanic community that Hispanic leaders support me.

As a historian, you can only go as far as the evidence will take you.

When you check into a hotel, they don't need to know your name and address; they just need to know that the bill will be paid. People should ask questions.

If it looks like a duck, and it quacks like a duck, it's probably a duck.

My dad always uses this expression: If it looks like a duck, and it quacks like a duck, it's probably a duck.

If it looks like a duck, and it quacks like a duck, it's probably a duck." Well, that isn't always true. It looks like Ambrose, and it talks like Ambrose. But no way that's Ambrose.

As very often in our discipline, old and seemingly certain statements rest forever without further verification

Organizations worried about the potential for e-voting problems have long-advocated for audit procedures by which votes cast by e-voting machines could be verified through audit trails.

As a journalist, you're always worried, 'Did I get the full story?'

Like, I took no poetic license with 'Schindler's List' because that was historical, factual documents.

You can't be a reporter using Google. It can be a tool. But you have to get out of the house.

What we can do is provide the tools, through our educational system, for people to be able to tell sense from nonsense. These tools include the scientific method, skeptical questioning, empirical evidence, verifying sources, etc.

The intelligence community does not have complete 'eyes on' the totality of the Iranian nuclear program, nor can it guarantee that we have identified all of Iran's nuclear facilities and processes.

If I were seriously interested in something important to me, I wouldn't just click on the first search result, read it and take it as God's word.

Of course, not everybody's willing to go out and do the experiments, but for the people who are willing to go out and do that, - if the experiments don't work, then it means it's not science.

Wrong takes an awful long time to be proven, in my experience.

I mean a lot of people think Im 19. I get carded all the time and no one think Im legal, like in the bedroom

Everywhere you go, people have recorded or captured events in real time on their mobile phones. It becomes one of the first questions you ask when you go in to investigate something.