Fact Finding Quotes

Investigative reporting is not a way to make friends.

You people are telling me what you think I want to know. I want to know what is actually happening.

Seek truth from facts.

We are not a paid bunch of bullies. Our job is to get the facts.

We should follow the facts wherever they lead us.

The American justice system administers punishment. It does not conduct inquests and it does not find facts.

As a documentarian, you think, 'Follow your curiosity.'

I have learned as a journalist that if you look long enough and hard enough and carefully enough, most truths are discoverable.

Approach each new problem not with a view of finding what you hope will be there, but to get the truth.

Scientists often have a naive faith that if only they could discover enough facts about a problem, these facts would somehow arrange themselves in a compelling and true solution.

We're never encouraged by the producers to ask questions in any way. The most important thing to be is authentic and to be yourself. If I feel someone has answered a question then I'll move on. If I feel it's important enough, I will pursue the question.

I have great admiration for the fact-checking team. Considering it takes me years to gather all the facts in my books, it's a daunting task for the fact-checkers to review all of that material in a matter of weeks.

The CIA should best serve the U.S. by being an unbiased reporter of the truth and if it were a fighting organization, that would affect its ability to analyze and report intelligence.

The duty of the grand jury is to separate fact from fiction, after a full and impartial examination of all the evidence involved, and decide if evidence supported the filing of any criminal charges against Darren Wilson. They accepted and completed this monumental responsibility in a conscientious and expeditious manner.

Our job in Congress is to follow the facts of any investigation wherever they lead.

We don't talk about the timing of open matters, but I certainly agree with the FBI director that in every investigation, no matter whom it involves, we are thorough, we are fair, we are efficient, and we move through the facts and the evidence and come to the conclusions that are called upon.

With years of experience doing whatever it takes to get to the bottom of each story, I am looking forward to covering the stories in the human dimension and impart the passion and visceral reactions the audience seeks.

Scientists want to know the evidence behind a statement; they want reproducible tests and verifiable facts. There is a big difference in the thought process of a trial lawyer who is interested not in what's true but what he can convince a jury is true.

Ultimately, bridging the practice of forensic science and the public's need for story may be difficult. We crave narrative, order from chaos, a mystery solved, good guys winning out over the bad ones. But science, and forensic science, should be more neutral and, thus, more nuanced.

You do nonfiction, you get to meet people you would not normally meet.

The first duty of man is the seeking after and the investigation of truth.

I love research. I'd go so far as to say I'm a research fanatic.

I have found where I am best, and that is being a fact-checker and being fearless.

Our failure to find weapons of mass destruction in Iraq thus far has been deeply troubling, and our intelligence-gathering process needs thorough and unbiased investigation.

Read like a detective and write like a conscientious investigative reporter.