Leadership Quote by 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 badly, either…

— Robert Fisk

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

— Robert Fisk

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

— Robert Fisk

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

— 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 not going…

— 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. I thought:…

— 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— our violence—which…

— 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 introduce a…

— Robert Fisk

I was very struck by the fact that Colin Powell said he would produce evidence of Osama bin Laden fault and then never produced…

— Robert Fisk