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"About all I can say for the United States Senate is that it opens with a prayer and closes with an investigation."
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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 president really shouldn't be involved in terms of dictating what course the investigation should take."

"After an extensive investigation, the office produced a report that addressed the many questions that confronted the difficult issues, it laid out new evidence, and it reached a definitive conclusion."

"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."

"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."

"It was odd but I couldn't jump the chasm of missing evidence to the conclusion Todd was making."

"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."

"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."

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

"A new era in the physiological investigation of linguistic sounds was opened up by X-ray photography."
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"There's no trick to being a humorist when you have the whole government working for you."

"There is nothing so stupid as the educated man if you get him off the thing he was educated in."

"If I studied all my life, I couldn't think up half the number of funny things passed in one session of congress."

"A man only learns in two ways, one by reading, and the other by association with smarter people."

"The more that learn to read the less learn how to make a living. That's one thing about a little education. It spoils you for actual work. The more you know the more you think somebody owes you a living."

"I guess there is nothing that will get your mind off everything like golf. I have never been depressed enough to take up the game, but they say you get so sore at yourself you forget to hate your enemies."

"In Hollywood the woods are full of people that learned to write but evidently can't read. If they could read their stuff, they'd stop writing."
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