Robert Fisk

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"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, the least must be our ability to report history as …"

"Now let's be fair. College staff have every right to take their own protection against America's notoriously inaccurate "smart" bombs."

"I do truly treasure this story. It proves my point that the Los Angeles Times -- along with the big East Coast dailies -- should all be called U.S. OFFICIALS SAY."

"The New York Times "last month announced that the Syrian-supported Hizbollah resistance in Lebanon had 10,000 missiles that could fly to Tel Aviv and "leave in their wake devastation more terrible tha…"

"And I think, in the end, that is the best definition of journalism I have heard; to challenge authority - all authority - especially so when governments and politicians take us to war, when they have …"

"Now quite apart from the fact that many Iraqis -- along with myself -- have grave doubts about whether Zarqawi exists and that al-Qaida's Zarqawi, if he does exist, does not merit the title of "insurg…"

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