Robert Fisk Quotes

• 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

  Topics in Job, Truth

  Tags in Try

• 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

  Topics in America

  Tags in New, Come

• 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

  Topics in Uncategorized

  Tags in May, Different, Idea

• 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

  Topics in Uncategorized

  Tags in Government, Question, Seen

• 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

  Topics in Humanity

  Tags in Look, War

• 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

  Topics in Uncategorized

  Tags in Happens, Interested

• Tanks come in two forms: the dangerous, deadly kind and the “liberating” kind.

  Robert Fisk

  Topics in Uncategorized

  Tags in Come, Kind

Robert Fisk (7)

Birth:	12th July, 1946
Nationality:	British
Profession:	Journalist, Writer

About

Robert Fisk is an English writer and journalist from Maidstone, Kent. As Middle East correspondent of The Independent, he has primarily been based in Beirut for more than 30 years. He has published a number of books and reported on several wars and armed conflicts.

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