Quotes About Investigation

I think that if journalists, reporters who spend a lot of time on a story, are honest with themselves, we all have feelings about our subjects - I mean, unless you're a robot.

There is no substitute for face-to-face reporting and research.

There's no substitute for seeing firsthand a well being drilled.

A hidden camera must never become a lazy substitute for the rigours of old-style reporting.

What crime writers are doing connects deeper into a cultural hunger. Crime is important. When you open up a book that has a body that's dead, that matters. It matters more than a certain level of suburban angst; it really does.

Books are not made to be believed, but to be subjected to inquiry. When we consider a book, we mustn't ask ourselves what it says but what it means...

There is most likely to be corruption even in the list of corrupt people or places prepared by any agency.

Nobody's ever proved that ghosts exist," said Christiana, striding determinedly toward the door.

science should be question driven, not methodology driven.

You know it's a bad case when the only way you can catch up on your sleep is to get unconscious.

It's a piece of cake, being a lawyer or a doctor or a computer systems analyst or an accountant. Libraries are full of books telling you how to do it. The only textbooks for private eyes are on fiction shelves, and I don't remember ever reading one that told me how to interrogate an eight-year old without feeling like I was auditioning for the Gestapo.

Of course, you could live without asking questions, just live the way life comes, float with the current, but, I'm crazy that way: I must know why and wherefore, dig down to the truth myself. That's why I'm a man.

Tom gave him a suspicious look. "Stanley, you've never actually worked a homicide investigation, right?" "No, but how hard can it be? You collect all the clues and you put them together, and voila. I have read a lot of mystery novels.

I think this guy's dead," the coroner said, scooting another inch or two, to be safe. "There's something wrong here," Tom said. They both looked at him. "No, I'm pretty sure of it," the coroner said. "That bullet hole, for one thing. Plus, he's not breathing. That's the kind of thing we look for.

Once a policeman, always a policeman; and what does a policeman do but present evidence dramatically and wait for reactions from interviewees?

I have interacted with the police complaints and internal affairs division twice and both times I came away with the opinion that I was dealing with a blatantly corrupt group of people.

Ugly is attractive, ugly is exciting. Maybe because it is newer. The investigation of ugliness is, to me, more interesting than the bourgeois idea of beauty. And why? Because ugly is human.

If someone wants to know about Scientology, they should just go and read about it themselves. That's the best way to do it.

We destroy things with our curiosity. We shatter with our best intentions

If you wish to find, you must search. Rarely does a good idea interrupt you

My name is Sherlock Holmes. It is my business to know what other people do not know.

We need an investigation, because we don't know what Donald Trump owes Russia. We don't know how many Russian oligarchs have invested in his business.

In addition I had real and serious questions about an independent counsel investigation that began with private business dealings twenty years ago

There is - you know, there's receipts for rented cars and license plates and guns and hand prints and palm prints and fingerprints. You know, I want to wait until I'm in a court.