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Robert Fisk (Writer)

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
Tanks come in two forms: the dangerous, deadly kind and the 'liberating' kind.
— Robert Fisk anger
The word 'democracy' and the name of Assad do not blend very well in much of Syria.
— Robert Fisk sad
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 business
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.'
— Robert Fisk life
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 truth
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 world
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 lies
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
When I visited Syrian special forces along the front lines, I was given extraordinary amounts of detail. They gave me the code numbers for the various positions they've got, told me where the rebels were - about 800 meters away in a forest. I met soldiers who had been wounded but were still serving.
— Robert Fisk die
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
In one way, I fear all Damascus is a dungeon. Or do you have to live here to appreciate that?
— Robert Fisk fear
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 courage
Colleagues will malign you if you're a moderately successful journalist.
— Robert Fisk success
I've never been embedded with American soldiers or British soldiers or Iraqi soldiers or any other.
— Robert Fisk wit
The biggest problem I have in journalism is being quoted or misquoted and then being asked to defend something I haven't said.
— Robert Fisk quote
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 death
We are constantly trying to cope with what our fathers or our grandfathers did. I wrote the book 'Great War of Civilization,' and my father was a solider in the First World War which produced the current Middle East - not that he had much to do with that - but he fought in what he believed was the Great War for Civilization.
— Robert Fisk believe
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
I do not make stories up, full stop.
— Robert Fisk stories
It is always an eerie experience to sit among Bashar al-Assad's soldiers.
— Robert Fisk sad
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.
— Robert Fisk power
And it's true, you hear things in Damascus and, after a few hours, the human double-take stops operating.
— Robert Fisk man
Israel lost its war. Will Assad's enemies lose, too?
— Robert Fisk war
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.
— Robert Fisk reading

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