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31 quotes by Robert Fisk

Robert Fisk (born 12 July 1946) is an English writer and journalist from Maidstone, Kent. He has been Middle East correspondent of The Independent for more than twenty years, primarily based in Beirut. Fisk holds more British and international journalism awards than any other foreign correspondent and has been voted British International Journalist of the Year award seven times. He has published a number of books and reported on several wars and...
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Tanks come in two forms: the dangerous, deadly kind and the 'liberating' kind.

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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.

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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... →

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The Americans may think they have 'liberated' Baghdad but the tens of thousands of thieves - they came in families and cruised the city in... →

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Wasn't Saddam destroyed? Wasn't Gaddafi liquidated? Didn't Milosevic go to the Hague? All true. But Stalin survived. Kim Jong-un... →

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

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

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The dead cannot speak. But hitherto unknown information has emerged from the confidential archives of the Syrian presidency and foreign ministry... →

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U.S. journalists I don't think are very courageous. They tend to go along with the government's policy domestically and internationally. To... →

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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... →

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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... →

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

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I do not make stories up, full stop.

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