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Quotes About Investigation

Richard Nixon was the best thing that ever happened to journalism. I mean this guy was wonderful. Just when you thought he could get no worse, he got worse.
~ P. J. O'Rourke
This story, I predict, will grow to be worse than Watergate. The American people need to have the answers.
~ Curt Weldon
Where it is a duty to worship the sun it is pretty sure to be a crime to examine the laws of heat.
~ John Morley
I say, let us think. Let each one express his thought. Let us become investigators, not followers, not cringers and crawlers. If there is in Heaven an infinite being, he never will be satisfied with the worship of cowards and hypocrites.
~ Robert Green Ingersoll
In due course, following an additional debriefing, the FBI confirmed to me and to my former counsel, Tom Carter, that I was not a suspect in this case. I assumed that my involvement in the investigation was over.
~ Steven Hatfill
Tomorrow morning before we depart, I intend to land and see what can be found in the neighborhood.
~ Christopher Columbus
That's always the most productive research - research into tone, into voice. Facts are nice, too, but facts are more raw material than creative inspiration.
~ Jonathan Dee
One of the things I liked about playing Tony Gates in 'Line of Duty' was that I don't think he gave much thought to justifying his actions until he was under investigation.
~ Lennie James
There are too many people sympathetic to radical Islam. We should be looking at them more carefully and finding out how we can infiltrate them.
~ Peter T. King
You can't be a reporter using Google. It can be a tool. But you have to get out of the house.
~ Pete Hamill
Textbook journalism everywhere in the world has always frowned upon the sting as a tool of reporting.
~ Barkha Dutt
Counterintelligence is, in effect, chasing ghosts, which is why the tools used to investigate foreign intelligence activity are secret, like human sources or electronic surveillance.
~ Asha Rangappa
I feel like if you read something, and it makes you so curious about a topic that you then go read something else, that's exciting.
~ Curtis Sittenfeld
The broader the topic, the easier it is, not only to fill a book, but to set the bar pretty high for really great stuff.
~ Mary Roach
Anyone who isn't confused or conflicted on the topic of Israel probably isn't looking into it too deeply.
~ Marianne Williamson
The F.B.I. pursues cases against individuals and organizations, not topics - this allows each case to have the flexibility to go in the direction the evidence leads, regardless of what happens with other, related cases.
~ Asha Rangappa
Able Danger consisted of approximately 20 direct individuals working for Special Forces in Tampa, Florida. The total amount of people working for Able Danger was 20.
~ Curt Weldon
By the end of his research, Barrios
~ Sean Patrick
Ginzo inclined his head and, without uttering a single word, returned to his room in the main house. For a while he just stood there thinking, but eventually he uttered a single sentence: "That man's lying." With that, he opened his suitcase and took out a blank telegram. After a few moments, he began to write. KATSUKO DEAD. SEND KINDAICHI. He addressed it to his own wife, then set out for the K—town post office.
~ Seishi Yokomizo
Who's James Bond?" Zabulon inquired.
~ Sergei Lukyanenko
When there are strange things going on all around, every coincidence should be considered very carefully.
~ Sergei Lukyanenko
Oh, a pipe smoker," said Henry. "Well, that narrows it down." "Sometimes," said Doyle, "there is nothing so significant as a trifle.
~ Seth Grahame-Smith
The newspaper of today far too often rush into print with stories that are essentially little more than tips, or hints of something toxic or criminal. For lack of time, money or skilled staff, we are besiege with "he said, she said".
~ Seymour M. Hersh
It is important to approach Maths only in a spirit of curiosity and discovery...
~ Shakuntala Devi