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 imp…

- Robert Fisk

I was very struck by the fact that Colin Powell said he would produce evidence and then never produced it. Then Tony Blair produced a document of sev…

- Robert Fisk

The violence stems from injustice, because people feel they have been treated unfairly in the Middle East, whether that means military occupation, st…

- Robert Fisk

War is primarily not about victory or defeat but about death and the infliction of death. It represents the total failure of the human spirit.

- Robert Fisk

At the end of the day, bin Laden's interest is not Washington and New York, it's the Middle East. He wants Saudi Arabia. He wants to get rid of the H…

- Robert Fisk

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

- Robert Fisk

President Bush cruelly manipulated the grief of the American people - and the sympathy of the rest of the world - to introduce a 'world order' dreame…

- Robert Fisk

In Palestine, the Israelis claim they found a land without people,' a Syrian officer explained to us. 'Now they will take southern Lebanon and claim …

- Robert Fisk

I suppose, in the end, we journalists try - or should try - to be the first impartial witnesses of history. If we have any reason for our existence, …

- Robert Fisk