Quotes About Investigation

Un beau livre, c'est celui qui sème à foison les points d'interrogation. »

she loved exploring every nook and cranny

What I loved most about calling myself a reporter was that it gave me an excuse to show up anyplace.

Real journalists pride themselves on getting it first and right; they get to the bottom of the story

I am - since I was a child - curious about everything. I like to look at how things work and why people are the way they are.

The best crime novels are not about how a detective works on a case; they are about how a case works on a detective.

Whether four years of strenuous attention to football and fraternities is the best preparation for professional work has never been seriously investigated.

I am interested in details. If you go into anything far enough, you get into the details of it, and people turn out to be interested in what makes things work.

[Otto Struve] made the remark once that he never looked at the spectrum of a star, any star, where he didn't find something important to work on.

Well, intuition isn't much help in police work. Facts are what we need.

Hours of research can cut months of field work.

I'd really like to write a book about Timothy McVeigh, but it would only work if he cooperated.

I used to work as a private detective years and years ago.

I provided all my emails that could possibly be work related [to FBI].

You know anything about investigative work?" "Sure. Annoy the people involved until the guilt party tries to make you go away.

After the investigation of Operation Aurora, the cyberattack on Google from within China that was revealed in 2010, I realized a completely new type of security strategy and technology was needed.

I looked into corruption in Afghanistan through a work called 'Payback' and impersonated a police officer, set up a fake checkpoint on the street in Kabul and stopped cars, but instead of asking them for a bribe, offered them money and apologized on behalf of the Kabul Police Department.

The murder of John Kennedy in broad daylight in the streets of an American city remains, to me, an unsolved crime.

Investigative pieces tend to be great stories because they haven't been told before. The process can be frustrating and stressful, but the result is often deeply rewarding.

I don't really think of 'Frontline' as a strictly public affairs series; I think of it as a work of journalism that is constantly reinventing itself.

In strife who inquires whether stratagem or courage was used?

I think, in a lot of ways, if you really strip down some of the most compelling novels, in a lot of ways, they're detective stories.

When even the most strictly logical mind looks round and investigates the phenomena attending its own existence, perhaps the first fact to attract attention by its strongly marked prominence is the remarkable loneliness of man. He stands alone.

Serum albumin is a well-defined protein, but no laboratory has yet attempted to ascertain its full chemical structure.