"The real question I ask myself is: who are these people who are trying to provoke the civil war? Now the Americans will say it's Al Qaeda, it's the Sunni insurgents. It is the [Shia] death squads. Many of the death squads work for the Ministry of Interior. Who runs the Ministry of Interior in Baghdad? Who pays the Ministry of the Interior? Who pays the militia men who make up the death squads? We do, the occupation authorities. (...) We need to look at this story in a different light.", Tony Jones, "Robert Fisk shares his Middle East knowledge", ABC Australia, 2 March 2006.
"because, of course, to look too closely at the Middle East would raise disturbing questions about the region, about our Western policies in those tragic lands, and about America's relationship with Ισραήλ.", Fisk, Robert (11 September 2002). "One year on: A view from the Middle East"Αρχειοθετήθηκε 2011-09-02 στο Wayback Machine., The Independent (London).
"Mr Robert, one of our brothers had a dream. He dreamed ... that you were a spiritual person ... this means you are a true Muslim." / "Sheikh Osama, I am not a Muslim ... I am a journalist ... A journalist's task is to tell the truth." / "If you tell the truth, that means you are a good Muslim.", Naparstek, Ben (30 August 2008). "Watching the warriors". New Zealand Listener, Vol 215 No 3564.
"brutality was entirely the product of others, of us—of we who had armed their struggle against the Russians and ignored their pain and laughed at their civil war and then armed and paid them again for the 'War for Civilisation' just a few miles away and then bombed their homes and ripped up their families and called them 'collateral damage.'", Fisk, Robert (10 Δεκεμβρίου 2001). «My beating by refugees is a symbol of the hatred and fury of this filthy war». robert-fisk.com. Αρχειοθετήθηκε από το πρωτότυπο στις 18 Ιουνίου 2006. Ανακτήθηκε στις 19 Ιουλίου 2006.
"brutality was entirely the product of others, of us—of we who had armed their struggle against the Russians and ignored their pain and laughed at their civil war and then armed and paid them again for the 'War for Civilisation' just a few miles away and then bombed their homes and ripped up their families and called them 'collateral damage.'", Fisk, Robert (10 Δεκεμβρίου 2001). «My beating by refugees is a symbol of the hatred and fury of this filthy war». robert-fisk.com. Αρχειοθετήθηκε από το πρωτότυπο στις 18 Ιουνίου 2006. Ανακτήθηκε στις 19 Ιουλίου 2006.
"because, of course, to look too closely at the Middle East would raise disturbing questions about the region, about our Western policies in those tragic lands, and about America's relationship with Ισραήλ.", Fisk, Robert (11 September 2002). "One year on: A view from the Middle East"Αρχειοθετήθηκε 2011-09-02 στο Wayback Machine., The Independent (London).
"Partly I think because of the culture of secrecy of the White House, never have we had a White House so secret as this one. Partly because of this culture, I think suspicions are growing in the United States, not just among Berkeley guys with flowers in their hair. (...) But there are a lot of things we don't know, a lot of things we’re not going to be told. (...) Perhaps the fourth plane was hit by a missile, we still don't know.", Fisk, Robert (26 March 2006). "Robert Fisk at Sydney Ideas 2006". ABC News Australia.
