Robert Fisk Quotes

I don't know what happens if they get bin Laden. I'm much more interested in what happens if they don't get bin Laden.
It's a journalist's job to be a witness to history. We're not there to worry about ourselves. We're there to try and get as near as we can, in an imperfect world, to the truth and get the truth out.
President Bush will come here and there will be new "friends" of America to open a new relationship with the world, new economic fortunes for those who "liberated" them.
Tanks come in two forms: the dangerous, deadly kind and the "liberating" kind.
The Americans may think they have 'liberated' Baghdad but the tens of thousands of thieves - they came in families and cruised the city in trucks and cars searching for booty - seem to have a different idea what liberation means.
U.S. journalists I don't think are very courageous. They tend to go along with the government's policy domestically and internationally. To question is seen as being unpatriotic, or potentially subversive.
When you have a crime against humanity that is so awesome in scale and death, it is more than permissible to look around and say, who recently has been declaring war on the United States? Of course, the compass points straight to bin Laden.
A businessman admits that he 'let go' an employee because he was a Sunni Muslim. You simply have to look after yourself, he explains. I am shocked, like a good Westerner should be.
American power in the Middle East is collapsing. It doesn't need much more than a shove, and it will - and that's not going to be a good thing.
And it's true, you hear things in Damascus and, after a few hours, the human double-take stops operating.
Bin Laden always wanted to get rid of Mubarek and Ben Ali and Gaddafi and so on, claiming that they were all infidels working for America, and in fact, it was millions of ordinary people who peacefully, more or less - certainly in the case of Tunisia and Egypt - got rid of them.
Clinton impressed Assad: a young man who appeared to want to be neutral in the Arab-Israeli dispute - an illusion of course, but that's what Assad thought.
Colleagues will malign you if you're a moderately successful journalist.
I do not make stories up, full stop.
I'm not sure whether I've been happy. After my last book tour, I sat on my balcony with a cup of tea. I thought: 'You can't rewind the movie. I've spent more than half my life in the Middle East. There have been great moments of horror and depression and loneliness.'
In one way, I fear all Damascus is a dungeon. Or do you have to live here to appreciate that?
Israel lost its war. Will Assad's enemies lose, too?
It is always an eerie experience to sit among Bashar al-Assad's soldiers.
I've never been embedded with American soldiers or British soldiers or Iraqi soldiers or any other.
One of the reasons why I think people have gone from reading mainstream newspapers to the Internet is because they realize they're being lied to.
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