Robert Fisk Quotes & Sayings (Page 2)

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

“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.”

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

“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.”

“I've never been embedded with American soldiers or British soldiers or Iraqi soldiers or any other.”

“The biggest problem I have in journalism is being quoted or misquoted and then being asked to defend something I haven't said.”

“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.”

“I do not make stories up, full stop.”

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

“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.”