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Quotes About Investigation

a deep investigation of the decision journey often reveals the need for a plan that will make the customer's experience coherent—and
~ Harvard Business School Press
Ultimately if you're a journalist, one day you're writing about figure skating, one day a political debate. I loved that about reporting. I like throwing my energies into various corners of the world.
~ Jess Walter
I have never been able to read Agatha Christie - the pleasure is purely in the puzzle, and the reader is toyed with by someone who didn't decide herself who the killer was until the end of the writing.
~ A. S. Byatt
'Boldface' is a pilot term, a magic word to describe the procedures that could, in a crisis, save your life. We say that 'boldface is written in blood' because often it's created in response to an accident investigation. It highlights the series of steps that should have been taken to avoid a fatal crash, but weren't.
~ Chris Hadfield
Raymond Chandler once wrote that Dashiell Hammett gave murder back to the people who really committed it.
~ James Ellroy
After spending three years of my life looking into this, I am more convinced than ever that the U.S. government's responsibility for the drug problems in South Central Los Angeles and other inner cities is greater than I ever wrote in the newspaper.
~ Gary Webb
And that's how I wrote to NICAP, but then later, just very soon after that, like three weeks later, we started getting phone calls from government agents.
~ Betty Hill
All was well, until I reached the port of Havre. Three officers with the rank of lieutenant, whom afterwards I knew to be Scotland Yard men, came aboard and demanded to see my papers which they took away from me.
~ Philip Gibbs
The lack of closure in an unsolved case seems to have a sharpening effect on those left behind; the details remain vivid to them even years later, possibly because they've gone over them looking for answers so many times.
~ Michelle McNamara
I was at MSNBC; I was constantly saying to them during Bridgegate, 'You've convicted Governor Christie without one iota of fact attaching him to the decision to stall the traffic on the bridge. Why don't we wait until the federal government or the state government... completes its investigation.'
~ Tom Brokaw
Benghazi is not a scandal; Benghazi was a tragedy.
~ Alan Colmes
When I was a general assignment reporter early in my career, I was the one knocking on their door after a tragedy.
~ Tamron Hall
I've thought from the start that a parallel federal investigation into the death of Michael Brown is important. I also believe that our state and local elected officials have been given a responsibility by the people who they work for to get to the bottom of this tragedy.
~ Roy Blunt
Anything that has to do with air travel and air tragedy is of interest to me.
~ Michael Emerson
Justice must be done in investigating the tragic death of Mr. Freddie Gray. His family deserves our deepest sympathy and respect for their loss, and our admiration for their courage in calling us, as a city, to act as our better selves.
~ Martin O'Malley
Vesco was always on the trail in search of money.
~ Arthur Herzog
Comey has left a trail of suspicious activities in his wake.
~ Tom Fitton
I'm not an expert or a trained ballistician. But it is a subject I've studied intently for 50 years, so I may know a thing or two. In my opinion, the JFK investigation was poorly handled.
~ Stephen Hunter
I've been fascinated by mysteries for as long as I can remember. Real, fictional, solved, unsolved, I don't care; they all fascinate me. I think that's a core human trait.
~ Tana French
I don't like that feeling of holding back difficult questions. I feel like the more I can be transparent in the way I approach a story, the more it makes a satisfying programme.
~ Louis Theroux
A loose tile; Poirot could not sleep in a room with such a thing.
~ Sophie Hannah
I've had no practice at talking to famous detectives in my own kitchen.
~ Sophie Hannah
Once while we were watching the denouement scene of a David Suchet Poirot episode, he [my husband] said irritably, 'Why do they all just sit there and let Poirot accuse them of stuff? I'd get up and walk out.
~ Sophie Hannah
Poirot smiled. "You think that I waste time on trivialities, mademoiselle? Non. These little details, apparently unconnected to the two killings, are vital to know. They are the little key that will open the heavy door.
~ Sophie Hannah