Top 44 Investigations Quotes

Words matter. These are the best Investigations Quotes from famous people such as Jon Krakauer, Italo Calvino, Robert Mueller, Zak Bagans, S.E. Cupp, and they’re great for sharing with your friends.

Military investigations are designed not to find anyone

Military investigations are designed not to find anyone guilty. And you can’t investigate up the chain of command, which is a huge impediment.
Jon Krakauer
Every time I’ve had to do journalistic investigations, I’ve cursed, but later I discovered that it had helped me enormously with writing fiction. It’s the one thing that can save me from becoming an academic writer.
Italo Calvino
I’ve always loved investigations.
Robert Mueller
I’ve been on investigations where a spirit is channeling through me, and I have extreme changes in my emotions – anger, sadness, confusion. Then I begin seeing visions that are not mine. They are theirs. There is no trace of time. My body goes stiff, numb, cold. Then, when the spirit leaves, I can barely stand and speak.
Zak Bagans
More often than not, punishment for hazing on college campuses goes only as far as administrative investigations and student expulsions, if not mere suspensions.
S.E. Cupp
In late 2003, the Bush administration reversed a long-standing policy requiring agents to destroy their files on innocent American citizens, companies and residents when investigations closed.
Barton Gellman
The FBI is a field-based law enforcement organization, and the vast majority of our investigations should continue to be worked by our field offices.
Christopher A. Wray
As a man may know about Africa either by going there personally or by reading descriptions written by travelers who have been there, so may he visit the super-physical realms if he will but qualify himself therefor, or he may learn what others who have so qualified themselves report as a result of their investigations.
Max Heindel
I’m calling for an end to the investigations about President Trump’s campaign colluding with the Russians. There’s been no evidence of it. I don’t think that should continue.
Ronna McDaniel
The fight against corruption is not bound to high-profile arrests and high-profile investigations. The fight against corruption is successful if you prevent corruption taking place in the first place.
Ahmed Chalabi
It’s not the function of Congress to do criminal investigations.
Saxby Chambliss
In the absence of full-fledged Congressional investigations, American policymakers rarely look back. They are bound by continuity and fealty across administrations and generations.
Samantha Power
I believe there’s too little patience and context to many of the investigations I read or see on television.
Bob Woodward
We should not burden a sitting president with civil suits, criminal investigations, or criminal prosecutions.
Brett Kavanaugh
That’s why investigations are so important, to drill down and to connect those dots and to get the facts. What we have is a lot of smoke that causes us to want to know more about what has happened.
Maxine Waters
You want to toe the line with tough investigations without falling into political grandstanding inherent in Washington on both sides of the aisle.
Darrell Issa
Agents need to be free to pursue investigations in ways that they haven’t. There have been restraints that a reformed FBI needs to make sure we don’t impose.
John Ashcroft
It is critical that special counsels have the independence and resources they need to lead investigations.
Thom Tillis
I know firsthand from my experience working counterintelligence investigations for the FBI that kicking a diplomat out of the country is no small thing.
Asha Rangappa
The Obama administration has had seven criminal leak investigations. That is more than twice the number of any previous administration in our history. It’s on a scale never seen before.
Jill Abramson
Regional clustering of specific cancer types triggered some investigations on a potential role of infectious agents in these malignant proliferations.
Harald zur Hausen
Even in the investigations into direct production of calcium peroxide in an alkali melt with highly compressed oxygen, it was found to be necessary to bring the high-pressure gas into contact with the suspension of lime in caustic alkali melt by agitation or some other means of mixing.
Friedrich Bergius
In the U.S., the ’50s and ’60s marked the documentary’s golden age, especially at CBS, where pioneering television journalist Edward R. Murrow, immortalised in George Clooney’s ‘Good Night, and Good Luck,’ produced such landmark investigations as the CBS Reports programme ‘Hunger in America.’
Naomi Wolf
Serial killers kill for the power and control they experience during the murders and for the added ego boost they get in the aftermath from community fears, media coverage, and the police investigations.
Pat Brown
I launched more formal elections investigations than any secretary of state in Missouri history, and we didn’t get a single complaint about voter impersonation fraud – not one.
Jason Kander
For Randy Neugebauer, the Texas Republican who chairs the investigations subcommittee, the top sources of funding for his 2012 reelection campaign are from the insurance, banking, finance, securities and real estate industries.
Gary Weiss
200,000 ISIS tweets a day, 1,000 investigations in all 50 states. It’s really hard to stop all of it. But we have to get control over this Internet propaganda that is poisoning the minds of the United States.
Michael McCaul
Whether it’s corporate investigations or comedy, there are certain inherent truths to trying to get what you want while trying to be a decent person doing it.
Nick Kroll
The reason the FISA standard is constitutional is that the government is supposed to use FISA surveillance not for criminal investigations but for counterintelligence probes pursued under the president’s authority to conduct foreign policy.
Benjamin Wittes
Republicans have relentlessly pursued investigations of Hillary Clinton, going back to her time as secretary of state (to say nothing of the 30-year project to take down both Clintons by right-wing outside groups).
Joy Reid
In reply, I can only plead that a discovery which seems to contradict the general tenor of previous investigations is naturally received with much hesitation.
Charles Lyell
The sheep-people don't think for themselves anymore. Yo

The sheep-people don’t think for themselves anymore. You can say anything and it’s the gospel truth and they don’t have to go research it or anything, and they believe everything the news tells them. People don’t go and do their own investigations if it’s relationships or politics or anything.
Big Boi
Fraud investigations punish those who lie, knowing that they are lying, intending to fool others, and do it for money. No one should be too big to answer for that conduct.
Sheldon Whitehouse
I’m not famous for my back story investigations; I’m lucky that I work with good writers and it’s usually in the script.
Bill Nighy
I love prosecuting cases, and I love doing investigations, particularly homicide investigations and the like, and that’s why I became a prosecutor.
Robert Mueller
For more than three months, I had been president and primary owner of Spellman Investigations, and I can say with complete certainty that I had more power in this office as an underling. My title, it seemed, was purely decorative. I was captain of an unfashionable and sinking ship.
Lisa Lutz
When I did counterintelligence investigations, they rarely saw the inside of a courtroom. That wasn’t the goal of them.
Asha Rangappa
The cloud that descended on Black Rock on Monday was not for the past but the future. How much will this debacle chill the pursuit of other risky investigations?
Tina Brown
As a former F.B.I. special agent who conducted counterintelligence investigations, I can attest that foreign intelligence services do not operate on the basis of explicit agreements or even actions that, standing alone, constitute criminal activity.
Asha Rangappa
If elected, I will work with federal leaders to rehouse the non-immigration enforcement functions of ICE – including human trafficking and money laundering investigations – elsewhere in the U.S. Department of Homeland Security while immediately eliminating funding for enforcement and removal functions.
Ayanna Pressley
Derogatory information sometimes is disclosed in the course of criminal investigations and prosecutions, but we never release it gratuitously.
Rod Rosenstein
To be clear, we do not open investigations based on race, or ethnicity, or national origin. But when we open investigations into economic espionage, time and time again, they keep leading back to China.
Christopher A. Wray
Since the September 11 attacks, nearly 400 individuals have been arrested by the Justice Department as a result of ongoing investigations into international terrorism. Of that total, over half were convicted as a result of their actions.
Jo Bonner
It’s definitely true that law enforcement investigations expand over time in appropriate ways.
Neal Katyal