Quotes About Verification

Okay, I'm not in the news business, and I'm not going to tell anyone how to do their job. However, it'd be good to have news reporting that I could trust again, and there's evidence that fact-checking is an idea whose time has come.

Certainly in my own body of reporting, I was very acutely aware of the risk of any mischaracterized journalism and the need for anything I put out to be absolutely bulletproof.

Could it be that all those reports coming from our own intelligence that Bush ignored was right all along? Could it be that the UN was right all along?

And they asked me to take a polygraph as to the allegations and reports I'd made. I volunteered and I took the polygraph and passed it without a glitch.

The media's gotten lazy. They don't check anything out. You report what he reports.

If you find a series of linear shapes in the same alignment as known archaeological features, and they match excavated examples, you still need to excavate to confirm, but you can be fairly sure that the imagery is accurate.

The civilized man has a moral obligation to be skeptical, to demand the credentials of all statements that claim to be facts

No temas preguntar, compañero! No te dejes convencer! ¡Compruébalo tu mismo! Lo que no sabes por ti, no lo sabes

Aristotle maintained that women have fewer teeth than men although he was twice married, it never occured to him to verify this statement by examining his wives' mouths.

I'll show you Obama's birth certificate when you show me Sarah Palin's high school diploma.

The process of testing claims is called science. Now, If you have a claim that can't be tested thats what we call pseudo-science. The difference between pseudo-science and science is whether or not you can test it.

I think it can be very safe to go to O'Hare and Wrigley and Sox park and Soldier Field, but you have to deal with some reality. Just because a threat is not specific and verifiable doesn't mean nearly what it used to mean, in terms of you being able to sleep well at night.

If a columnist writes that something happened on a certain date, or that the government spent a certain amount of money on something, or that a specific number of people have died in the war in Iraq, to pick a few examples, it is his or her responsibility to make certain that information is correct.

One should never act on what one hears from others, but seek and discover the truth for himself.

Never trust anything you read in a travel article.

In God we trust; all others bring data.

Any agreement that you have isn't going to be based on North Korea's intentions or trust.

Trust everyone, but always cut the cards.

Trust everybody, but cut the cards yourself.

Do not trust any statistics you did not fake yourself.

Don't believe everything you read.

I don't trust the church or the government, and anything the church or the government tells me I assume to be a lie or a conspiracy, until proven true.

Believe everything you read

You either trust someone day one until they prove you wrong, or you say, 'I don't trust you until you show me I can trust you.' I'm the latter.