"I suppose, in the end, we journalists try - or should try - to be the first impartial witnesses of history. If we hav…"

"And history`s fingers never relax their grip, never leave us unmolested, can touch us even when we would never imagin…"

"I don't like the definition 'war correspondent'. It is history, not journalism, that has condemned the Middle East to…"

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

"And I think, in the end, that is the best definition of journalism I have heard; to challenge authority - all authori…"

"When we journalists fail to get across the reality of events to our readers, we have not only failed in our job; we h…"

"If you stand up to people, they'll respect you for it. I had an e-mail from a Cambridge University American law stude…"

"War is primarily not about victory or defeat but about death and the infliction of death. It represents the total fai…"

"Yesterday, with an inevitability born of the utterly false promise that the bloodbath in Iraq is yielding dividends, …"

"'Terrorism' is a word that has become a plague on our vocabulary,the excuse and reason and moral permit for state-spo…"