Quotes About Investigation

One of my books, called 'Moscow Station,' revealed that a KGB archivist had defected from Russia to the FBI. And I knew that he was safe, and revealing this would not jeopardize him. But nevertheless, the FBI started a leak investigation.

There should be a response, clearly, if there was meddling. And it does appear that there was some, and therefore, we perhaps should wait for our own investigation by Mr. Mueller to continue and to come to a conclusion before we begin to take steps regarding the Russians.

a skeptic is just a person who wants to see and evaluate the evidence before believing. In its truest sense, a skeptic is someone who keeps an open mind, but requires rigorous investigation before choosing to believe something.

there's a common trick nature plays on its would-be investigators: resemblance, the human urge to map the unknown onto the already known, can be a snare. Just because something looks like something else doesn't mean that the backstory for both must be the same. Rocks scattered across the sky may appear to be a rubble field left behind by an explosion…but unless you stop to think how else you might get there, you rely on assumptions not in evidence.

It is error only, and not truth, that shrinks from inquiry.

believe that at least twenty percent of autopsies nationwide reveal that the initial theory of the cause of death is wrong.

The task of science is investigation pure and simple," he said quietly. "Not to try to prove this or that." He

Shane and Eva were her writer children. And as their mama, she had a right to get to the bottom of their situationship.

The way I figured, I was just a kid, and if I could take it apart, they surely could put it back together. Then my mom would walk in the kitchen and see me standing on a chair at the counter, holding a screwdriver with disassembled components all over the place. 'What the heck's going on?' 'I'm intrigued how the blender works.

We're dealing with one of the worst kinds of killer." "What kind's that?" asked the lieutenant. "Patient.

Murder is such a charged word. You know how some people fixate and won't let things go? They're called cops.

The early fly gets the cadaver

It's like being involved in a detective story, looking for that thing that nobody else has found.

You're immediately in a world of noir when you're watching shows like 'The Bridge' or 'The Killing.'

I never initiated nor did the FBI ever initiate any conversation or correspondence with me.

I can't imagine having to it to walk into murder scenes, and then trying to let that go, at the end of the day, and going home to your own family to live a normal life.

I'm not interested in breaking news. I'm interested in telling the story of what's going on and then trying to figure it out.

The crime novel has always been my favourite genre.

Novelists should be like scientists, dissecting the cadaver.

I read a lot of detective novels.

I think you've got be willing as an interviewer to ask the dumb question every now and then.

We do need to get to the bottom of what Russia did and their interference in the election. And we need to also figure out how the Obama administration failed so miserably to allow Russia to have this type of impact in our country.

For me, it's very interesting to take one object and really dissect it to as many layers as possible.

I'm a firm believer that no matter how small an object is, you can find interesting things out about it and its history.