Quotes by : Richard Engel

I may have been in stage four, but I wasn’t completely crazy. At least eighty-six journalists had been....

When I take risks now, I do so only when I have to and with every precaution. I used to prospect for....

It is a disturbing aspect of human nature that if there is a place where there are no consequences and....

Reporters go through four stages in a war zone. In the first stage, you’re Superman, invincible. In....

Trouble seemed to follow me around. The late Tim Russert, my friend and the esteemed moderator of NBC’s....

Foreigners who speak Arabic in the Middle East are often assumed to be working for the C.I.A. or Israel's....

I could scarcely believe that my new home was engulfed by war before I even had time to find an apartment.....

When I first arrived in Baghdad in January 2003, I thought I would soon rent a house and envisioned myself....

The administration often used the analogy of planting the “seeds of democracy” in the Middle East,....

From seven hundred journalists at the beginning of March, the number had dwindled to about one hundred....