Robert Fisk

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…

— Robert Fisk

And I think, in the end, that is the best definition of journalism I have heard; to challenge authority - all authority…

— Robert Fisk

Bin Laden was constantly revolving in his mind the fact that he had got rid of the Russians; therefore, the Americans can…

— Robert Fisk

How could believers, people who regard themselves as true Muslims, get on those planes, quoting the words of God delivered through the…

— Robert Fisk

American power in the Middle East is collapsing. It doesn't need much more than a shove, and it will - and that's…

— Robert Fisk

The Second World War is and was constantly being drudged up by Blair and Bush to rationalize the invasion of Iraq.

— Robert Fisk

I'm not sure whether I've been happy. After my last book tour, I sat on my balcony with a cup of tea.…

— Robert Fisk

“Terrorism” is a word that has become a plague on our vocabulary, the excuse and reason and moral permit for state-sponsored violence—…

— Robert Fisk

In just one year in Bosnia, thirty of my colleagues died. There is a little Somme waiting for all innocent journalists.

— Robert Fisk

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

— Robert Fisk

President Bush cruelly manipulated the grief of the American people - and the sympathy of the rest of the world - to…

— Robert Fisk

I was very struck by the fact that Colin Powell said he would produce evidence of Osama bin Laden fault and then…

— Robert Fisk

I've never seen a single demonstration in Pakistan, in the streets of Gaza, in the West Bank, in which the people have…

— Robert Fisk

There is nothing so satisfying as to be shot at without effect.

— Robert Fisk

President Bush will come here and there will be new "friends" of America to open a new relationship with the world, new…

— Robert Fisk

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

— Robert Fisk

And history s fingers never relax their grip, never leave us unmolested, can touch us even when we would never imagine their…

— Robert Fisk

Some of the guys in the Northern Alliance are war criminals. One of the Northern Alliance commanders ran a slave girl network…

— Robert Fisk

The sheer violence of it, the howl of air raid sirens and the air-cutting fall of the missiles carried its own political…

— Robert Fisk

Refuse to accept the narrative of history laid down by presidents, prime ministers, generals and journalists.

— Robert Fisk

Clinton impressed Assad: a young man who appeared to want to be neutral in the Arab-Israeli dispute - an illusion of course,…

— Robert Fisk

“The cedars 'know the history of the earth better than history itself.' If this was so, it was little wonder that they…

— Robert Fisk

After the allied victory of 1918, at the end of my father's war, the victors divided up the lands of their former…

— Robert Fisk

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…

— Robert Fisk

The bin Laden I met each time was in a simple Saudi white robe, with a simple, cheap kafiya and very cheap…

— Robert Fisk