Investigative Reporter Quotes & Sayings

With every book, you go back to school. You become a student. You become an investigative reporter. You spend a little time learning what it's like to live in someone else's shoes. — John Irving

It take faith to follow your dreams and courage to reach them. — E'yen A. Gardner

If an investigative reporter finds out that someone has been robbing the store, that may be 'gotcha' journalism, but it's also good journalism. — Ben Bradlee

Investigative reporter Reese Clamlock reveals the chilling characteristics that ALL serial killers had in common, some of which being: They were all carbon based life forms. Most serial killers have /had names. At one time in their lives, many murderers have eaten at a restaurant. Reese warns of the foods that may attract these criminals. Almost ALL serial killers broke the law. A good portion of these criminals have breathed the SAME air your kids do! — Anonymous

The old joke is that psychiatrists are doctors who can't stand the sight of blood. Maybe they can't stand it, but if they work where I work, they damn well better get used to it.
At least surgeons and prizefighters get to wear gloves — Mike Bartos

Freelance investigative reporter Danny Casolaro was looking into the Cabazon/Wackenhut projects as part of a larger conspiracy investigation at the time he was found dead in a West Virginia motel room in 1991, allegedly a suicide victim. He had told friends he was convinced that "spies, arms merchants and others were using the reservation as a low-profile site on which to develop weapons for Third World armies, including the Nicaraguan Contras. — Gary Webb

I want to be the greatest investigative reporter of my generation. — Michael Hastings

Having small children and being an investigative reporter would seem like a difficult mix, but it worked well for me. I was often working on my own enterprise stories, which were not as deadline sensitive. — Jill Abramson

As an investigative reporter, I'm trying to uncover things and expose them to create a dialogue. — Eric Schlosser

I thought about the future, the oceans and continents he would cross, far away from everyone who knew and loved him. Far outside the sphere of his mothers prayers. Among the women of the future, there was one who would know his secrets and bear his children, and witness the changes the years worked on him. And it wouldnt be me.
-Liberty Jones — Lisa Kleypas

As a rule, people are afraid of truth. Each truth we discover in nature or social life, destroys the crutches on which we need to lean. — Ernst Toller

In language at once stark and delicate, Suki Kim shatters the polemic of North and South Korea. She couples an investigative reporter's fierce desire to strip away the fiction of the Hermit Kingdom with an immigrant's insatiable hunger for an emotional home, no matter how troubled and no matter how impossible. — Monique Truong

I think as an investigative reporter I had tough standards, but I don't think of myself as a tough person. — Jill Abramson

He's probably the only player who doesn't play for 10 months and, if he scores a hat trick in his first game back, no one would be surprised. — Ryan Whitney

As someone who has spent a lot of her career as an investigative reporter, I'll confess that a frustration of mine has always been that so much investigative journalism involves a dissection of events in the past. — Jill Abramson

It is only with true love and compassion that we can begin to mend what is broken in the world. It is these two blessed things that can begin to heal all broken hearts. — Steve Maraboli

Read like a detective and write like a conscientious investigative reporter. — David Coleman