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"It was odd but I couldn't jump the chasm of missing evidence to the conclusion Todd was making."
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"Our mandate expects that we will build on the Joint Inquiry's investigation and we will not be re-inventing the wheel. But we go to places which the Joint Inquiry was not permitted to explore."

"The great thing in these cases is to keep an absolutely open mind. Most crimes, you see, are so absurdly simple."

"There were no footmarks.''Meaning that you saw none?''I assure you, sir, that there were none.''My good Hopkins, I have investigated many crimes, but I have never yet seen one which was committed by a flying creature. As long as the criminal remains upon two legs so long must there be some indentation, some abrasion, some trifling displacement which can be detected by the scientific searcher."

"I hear Mr. Palmer tell Hannah that it was an electrical fault. Five arsonists in one school and it ends up being something so technically boring."

"In due course, following an additional debriefing, the FBI confirmed to me and to my former counsel, Tom Carter, that I was not a suspect in this case. I assumed that my involvement in the investigation was over."

"Asking questions is an essential part of police investigation. In the ordinary sense a police officer is free to ask a person for identification without implicating the Fourth Amendment."

"Google maps are one thing but there's no substitute for pounding the beat and I spent quite a bit of time figuring out how to break into the back of the houses on Belgrave Place. Once I even for followed by a suspicious householder - I'd been hanging around staring at the exterior of his flat for too long."

"About all I can say for the United States Senate is that it opens with a prayer and closes with an investigation."

"Professor Rex Curry ... has been researching the link between Hitler's National Socialism and Edward Bellamy's 'socialistic' form of 'nationalism."

"The president really shouldn't be involved in terms of dictating what course the investigation should take."
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"What if I were seeking a hardcopy? A book I can bury my nose in metaphorically and literally if I'm a self-confessed book-sniffer and proud to say so."

"As long as you don't kill someone or seriously maim them, sure, it doesn't matter what anyone else thinks as long as you have a good time."

"He held out a shaky and worn hand and she met it with one of her young and inexperienced ones."

"Everyones' worst problems weigh the same, and it's up to you how heavy that weight is and how much you let it drag you down."

"When the imagination takes over, the second hand could be the hour hand to a creator of stories."
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