"Clinton impressed Assad: a young man who appeared……" — Robert Fisk
"Clinton impressed Assad: a young man who appeared to want to be neutral in the Arab-Israeli dispute - an illusion of course, but that's what Assad thought."
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35 Quotes by Robert Fisk
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The [Israelis] believed - they were possessed of an absolute certainty and conviction - that 'terrorists' were in Chatila. How…
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When you have a crime against humanity that is so awesome in scale and death, it is more than permissible…
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I don't know what happens if they get bin Laden. I'm much more interested in what happens if they don't…
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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…
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The Americans may think they have 'liberated' Baghdad but the tens of thousands of thieves - they came in families…
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In just one year in Bosnia, thirty of my colleagues died. There is a little Somme waiting for all innocent…
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War is primarily not about victory or defeat but about death and the infliction of death. It represents the total…
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I suppose, in the end, we journalists try - or should try - to be the first impartial witnesses of…
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And I think, in the end, that is the best definition of journalism I have heard; to challenge authority -…
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And history s fingers never relax their grip, never leave us unmolested, can touch us even when we would never…
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After the allied victory of 1918, at the end of my father's war, the victors divided up the lands of…
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No punishment has ever possessed enough power of deterrence to prevent the commission of crimes. On the contrary, whatever the…
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When migraines briefly became a campaign issue for me, it appeared that political foes were maybe playing the gender card.
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Once the automobile appeared you could have predicted that it would destroy as many people as it did.
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My wish is to bring my heroes to the big screen, and many of them have already appeared in my…
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At first a small line of inconceivable splendour emerged on the horizon, which, quickly expanding, the sun appeared in all…
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Nothing is more clear than that Christ cannot be explained by any humanistic system. He does not fit into any…
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If ever the Divine appeared on earth, it was in the person of Christ.
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I always give all the glory to God, but I do not forget that He gave me the privilege of…
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When Prohibition was introduced, I hoped that it would be widely supported by public opinion and the day would soon…
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I headed for this white mountain, but was caught in the wind and the mist . . . I followed…
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