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Quotes About Investigation

The head of the CIA, it seems to me, would think long and hard before he admitted that former employees of his had been involved in the murder of the President of the United States-even if they weren't acting on behalf of the Agency when they did it.
~ Jim Garrison
I don't believe President Nixon ordered a break-in, but people working for him were doing it. And then that dragged the president in. And then you have the cover-up. And before you know it, the president's gone.
~ Richard Painter
I have yet to meet very many people in the press who are really, truly interested in writing a good story or getting at the truth. Most press people, when they come into an article, have an angle that they want already, so they need points to support that angle, whatever the angle may be.
~ Janeane Garofalo
I think the good old British democracy should keep scrutinising and pressing to get the truth out.
~ Clare Short
The core civil liberty that underpins our American criminal justice system is the presumption of innocence. Every person enjoys this presumption long before the commencement of any investigation or official proceeding.
~ William Barr
I can tell you, all the intelligence services in the world were running my name through their databases to see did anyone by this name come in the country? When? Do we know anything about it? Where did she stay? Who did she see?
~ Valerie Plame
There's no way we can get to the bottom of Benghazi without David Petraeus.
~ Trey Gowdy
I'm at the right age to work with dead people, but you have to be smart to be a CSI.
~ Ted Danson
For me, people are like the black boxes found in the debris of airplane crashes.
~ Svetlana Alexievich
Women study things in order to figure out how they're connected to other things. I don't know if it's controversial to say that, but that's what I've seen from doing science for a couple of decades.
~ Hope Jahren
One thing I take great pride in is that my case was the one that started the decline of the Mafia.
~ Joseph D. Pistone
When you buy my books, you kind of know what you're in for. It's kind of self-selecting. If you have a delicate sensibility, and you're easily grossed out, you probably will never read one of my books.
~ Mary Roach
I play a detective, very close to myself actually.
~ Jon Voight
I never have liked detective dramas. I try to watch all of them to see what's going on, but I don't like them.
~ Kevin Whately
The thing I don't like about detective stories is looking for criminals.
~ Natsuo Kirino
I'm not cut out to be a detective on 'Law & Order' - I laugh too easily.
~ Becki Newton
I'd be an absolutely appalling detective... Appalling.
~ Nicola Walker
Delving into history is not an escape for me. I'm like a detective, sniffing for clues with a terrier-like excitement.
~ David Starkey
Mobius is like a detective in the way that he works with Loki.
~ Kate Herron
Crime makes for great drama and it's interesting because it delves into the darker side of us. Those kind of stories go way back, the detective and the criminal.
~ Mark Bonnar
One of my favorite parts of being an actress is being a detective.
~ Jessica Chastain
If you're a detective, and you use your channels to get to Facebook, and you get someone that has access, you can go on and get anything you want.
~ Seph Lawless
I wanted to be an actor when I was young, and I wanted to be a detective.
~ Susanna Reid
What the detective story is about is not murder but the restoration of order.
~ P. D. James