Quotes About Investigation

The great thing about Watergate is, is that the system worked. The American system worked. The press did its job. We did what we were supposed to do.

Having worked on 'The Hour,' I now feel like I spend my whole time interrogating history.

I have here in my hand a list of two hundred and five people that were known to the Secretary of State as being members of the Communist Party and who nevertheless are still working and shaping the policy of the State Department.

I'm a working journalist. I'm interested in all points of view, and I draw conclusions based on facts, not just on opinions.

Working together, they will dig out the truth and nothing but the truth about what happened in '99, to assign responsibility, and to look at the institutional failings.

I'm very inquisitive, and I always have questions and need to touch things to see how it works or why it works.

Even a competent lawyer may not be able to mount an adequate defense against the state, with all its resources, if he has next to nothing for investigation and effectively works for starvation wages.

I'm trying to understand how time works. And that's a huge question that has lots of different aspects to it.

As a filmmaker, I tilt towards stories which are crime-led.

I recently got into 'Lie to Me' with Tim Roth and 'The Mentalist.'

It is easy to make stuff up - and easy to dig up information and repeat it or report it to others. But to find a real life story with real people in real life situations is quite difficult and time-consuming. Yet, the rewards are worth the effort.

Even the lesser burdens of a criminal investigation - including preparing for questioning by criminal investigators - are time-consuming and distracting.

It's very questionable, and we will pursue every factor, every element, every second of the timeline, of the final hours of Maurice's life. We will pursue that relentlessly. That will be our quest from now on.

We don't talk about the timing of open matters, but I certainly agree with the FBI director that in every investigation, no matter whom it involves, we are thorough, we are fair, we are efficient, and we move through the facts and the evidence and come to the conclusions that are called upon.

As you can tell from the titles of my books, I like to probe secret organizations, secret subjects. And this sometimes gets me into trouble.

Why do I write? To investigate the mystery of existence. To tolerate myself. To get closer to everything that is outside of me.

A ratchet-up would be to expel violators like him from powerful jobs they currently hold if the wrongdoing continues or their contracts come up for renewal. The next notch would be to take their freedom—that is, to investigate, prosecute, and send them to jail. That option terrifies the dominator coalition. Why else would it have worked so hard for thirty years to eliminate it?

There was a lot under those words. I'd go digging for it later.

Sevarin had been dismissive about the chance of finding out anything useful from the cops, but when it came to getting information, I had an edge he didn't. Sevarin did not make a killer lasagne.

You'll methodically do everything you can to find me, then tick that off your list: a job well done. But will you ever even want to know why I went missing?

What the hell was an acquisitions consultant? An arms dealer? A white slave trader?

You are to imagine a Realworld room with three light bulbs in it. Outside the room are three electric switches. You may only enter the room once, and you may only have one switch on when you enter the room. How can you work out which switch operates which light?

Reporters are faced with the daily choice of painstakingly researching stories or writing whatever people tell them. Both approaches pay the same.

refuse to quit until every possible alternative has been explored.