Quotes by Richard Engel

About Richard Engel:

Richard Engel is an American journalist and author who is NBC News' chief foreign correspondent. He was assigned to that position on April 18, 2008, after being the network's Middle East correspondent and Beirut Bureau chief. Engel was the first broadcast journalist recipient of the Medill Medal for Courage in Journalism for his report "War Zone Diary".
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Mali exists mostly to itself. Few people go there. Few Malians leave. Most of Mali's 13 million people live, and seem to live quite happily, off the rice, corn and millet they grow and the long-horn cattle and goats they keep.

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I have seen heroics - soldiers saving other soldiers' lives - and horrors.

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9/11 was a terrible, horrific, tragic day.

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President George W. Bush, in his now-rare public appearances and interviews, still refuses to acknowledge he did anything to help Iran. But it doesn't really matter what he thinks.

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The Syrian border town of Qa'im was the main gateway Islamic radicals used to go to Iraq. Syria became the passageway for extremists from Egypt, Libya, Afghanistan, Yemen, Saudi Arabia and other Muslim nations to fight a jihad against American forces...

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Assad's regime helped ISIS grow by attacking other opposition forces and rarely targeting ISIS.

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Egypt has a devout population. People go out, they pray, they fast.

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Osama bin Laden organized an attack that was carried out against the United States, New York, Pentagon, and the other aircraft, with 19 attackers, 19 guys with box cutters. An attack that probably cost almost nothing.

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I think it's really important to start thinking about infrastructure as essential national security.

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Salafists are fundamentalists who dedicate their lives to religious preaching, converting non-believers and defending the strict moral codes of Islamic law. Salafists are generally poor, sometimes impoverished, choosing the purity of poverty over the...

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Afghanistan was always a backwater in the Islamic world.

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Damascus was the seat of the Ummayad Caliphate in the 7th and 8th centuries.

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There was an insurgency under President Hosni Mubarak in the 1990s. Egyptian police and soldiers fought weekly battles with Islamists in the sugarcane fields and thick reeds along the Nile in rural southern villages like Minya, Sohag, Enna and Assiou...

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Egypt has a presidential system. The president runs the state. Who the president is matters profoundly.

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Every country where the the United States maintains troops has a status of forces agreement.

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Any information about U.S. special operations forces is highly sensitive.

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I don't look for good-news stories or bad-news stories.

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I don't think I'm invincible.

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I had some training on how to cope with hostage-taking.

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If Israel sees weapons moving toward its border, it acts.

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Hamas is a Palestinian political party with an aggressive militant wing.

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Author Bio

  • NameRichard Engel
  • DescriptionAmerican television journalist
  • BornSeptember 16, 1973
  • CountryUnited States Of America
  • ProfessionJournalist