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Robert Fisk Quotes

British - Journalist | July 12, 1946 -

Tanks come in two forms: the dangerous, deadly kind and the 'liberating' kind.

Dangerous Kind Two Tanks Come Forms

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: 'You can't rewind the movie. I've spent more than half my life in the Middle East. There have been great moments of horror and depression and loneliness.'

Life Great Loneliness Depression Tea

When I visited Syrian special forces along the front lines, I was given extraordinary amounts of detail. They gave me the code numbers for the various positions they've got, told me where the rebels were - about 800 meters away in a forest. I met soldiers who had been wounded but were still serving.

Me Detail Forest Numbers Special

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.

City Think Searching Thieves Seem

I do not make stories up, full stop.

Stop Up Make Stories Full

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

Experience Soldiers Always Sit Among

The dead cannot speak. But hitherto unknown information has emerged from the confidential archives of the Syrian presidency and foreign ministry, published in a new book by Bouthaina Shaaban, who spent ten years as Hafez's interpreter and is still an adviser to his son Bashar.

Son Book Speak Information New Dead

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

War Lose Lost Will Enemies Israel

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

Problem Journalism Said Defend Being

Bin Laden always wanted to get rid of Mubarek and Ben Ali and Gaddafi and so on, claiming that they were all infidels working for America, and in fact, it was millions of ordinary people who peacefully, more or less - certainly in the case of Tunisia and Egypt - got rid of them.

People America Egypt More Always

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.

Death War Humanity You Look Say

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.

Know More Get Happens Interested

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