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

“I want to be the greatest investigative reporter of my generation.”

“I went into journalism to do journalism, not advertising.”

“I think it's very difficult to make people care about natives in another country.”

“The first time I met President Obama was 2006 in Baghdad. He was the senator from Illinois; it was a month before he actually ended up declaring. He had to come to Baghdad to kind of check that box, and I was the correspondent for 'Newsweek' at the time.”

“When interviewing for a job, tell the editor how you love to report. How your passion is gathering information. Do not mention how you want to be a writer, use the word 'prose,' or that deep down you have a sinking suspicion you are the next Norman Mailer.”

“During the invasion of Iraq in 2003, the military conducted only a handful of drone missions.”

“I'm a reasonably accomplished journalist. I've worked as an investigative journalist, I've done crime beat stuff.”

“There's some irony in playing a journalist after some of the stuff that has been written about me, but it's a great profession, particularly investigative journalism.”

“I'm a writer of fiction. I try to write about my time, but it's dangerous if I'm seen as an investigative writer. I manipulate and change and control.”

“We were the first people who did investigative stuff, who asked occasionally abrasive, occasionally confrontational questions.”

“I'm not an investigative journalist; I don't track crime or police blotters.”

“I'm quite investigative. Believe it or not, my mum and dad were in the police, and I sort of like to read into things and stuff.”