Robert Fisk Quotes

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.
Robert Fisk

Government, Question, Seen

And it's true, you hear things in Damascus and, after a few hours, the human double-take stops operating.
Robert Fisk

True, Human, After

Colleagues will malign you if you're a moderately successful journalist.
Robert Fisk

Successful, Colleagues, Journalist

I do not make stories up, full stop.
Robert Fisk

Stop, Full, Stories

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.
Robert Fisk

Happens, Interested, Bin

In one way, I fear all Damascus is a dungeon. Or do you have to live here to appreciate that?
Robert Fisk

Fear, Live, Here

Israel lost its war. Will Assad's enemies lose, too?
Robert Fisk

War, Lost, Lose

It is always an eerie experience to sit among Bashar al-Assad's soldiers.
Robert Fisk

Experience, Soldiers, Sit

Tanks come in two forms: the dangerous, deadly kind and the 'liberating' kind.
Robert Fisk

Two, Dangerous, Deadly

The Syrian army is tired of corruption. It is tired of party nepotism. It is becoming very angry with those it blames for the war.
Robert Fisk

War, Angry, Tired

The word 'democracy' and the name of Assad do not blend very well in much of Syria.
Robert Fisk

Democracy, Word, Name

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.
Robert Fisk

Good, Yourself, After

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.
Robert Fisk

Thought, Young, Illusion

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.
Robert Fisk

History, Truth, Job

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.
Robert Fisk

Friends, America, Here

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.
Robert Fisk

May, Different, Idea

The dead cannot speak. But hitherto unknown information has emerged from the confidential archives of the Syrian presidency and foreign ministry, published in a new book by Bouthaina Shaaban, who spent ten years as Hafez's interpreter and is still an adviser to his son Bashar.
Robert Fisk

Book, Cannot, Son

Wasn't Saddam destroyed? Wasn't Gaddafi liquidated? Didn't Milosevic go to the Hague? All true. But Stalin survived. Kim Jong-un isn't doing too badly, either - though that's probably because he actually has nuclear weapons, as opposed to Iran which might or might not be trying to acquire them and thus remains on the Israeli-American target list.
Robert Fisk

True, Trying, Might

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.
Robert Fisk

War, Death, Humanity

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Biography

Nationality: British

Type: Journalist

Born: July 12, 1946

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