Top 4 Quotes & Sayings by James Foley

Explore popular quotes and sayings by an American journalist James Foley.

Last updated on September 17, 2024.

James Wright Foley was an American journalist and video reporter. While working as a freelance war correspondent during the Syrian Civil War, he was abducted on November 22, 2012, in northwestern Syria. He was murdered by decapitation in August 2014 purportedly as a response to American airstrikes in Iraq, thus becoming the first American citizen killed by the Islamic State of Iraq and Syria (ISIS).

American - Journalist | October 18, 1973 - August 19, 2014

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It was a kind of siren song that called me out to the front lines.

James Foley

You go through different emotions when you're in captivity. On the one hand you say, my career is over. On the other hand, you say, my career's just started. See with these weird extreme ideas of where you are based on this capture.

James Foley

That's part of the problem with these conflicts. We're not close enough to it. If we don't try to get really close to what these guys - men, women, Americans, and now, with this Arab Revolution, young Arab men, Young Egyptians and Libyans - are experiencing, you don't understand the world, essentially.

James Foley

I believe frontline journalism is important.

James Foley

Top 4 Quotes & Sayings by James Foley

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