"A recent incident in Lahore where a policeman on duty stopped a car, ostensibly having tinted windscreen, has evoked a lot of comment, most of it out of motivation and/or plain ignorance of the facts."

"The Palestinians, of course, suffer more than anyone else."

"Text of President Bush's news conference in the basement of White House Laundry room. Ahmed Amr transcribed this text. He has hearing problems and the dryers were running, but this is what he thought he heard."

“There are different kinds of truths for different kinds of people. There are truths appropriate for children; truths that are appropriate for students; truths that are appropriate for educated adults; and truths that are appropriate for highly educated adults, and the notion that there should be one set of truths available to everyone is a modern democratic fallacy. It doesn’t work.”

"If the Israeli media were truly independent, instead of being a department of the security establishment, a dozen Israeli journalists would have rushed to Gaza on the same day, interviewed the dozens of wounded in the hospitals, compared the evidence, visited the families of the dead and taken testimony from eye-witnesses, confronting these with the army version."

"...every step must be precisely measured and monitored, whether relating to political or economic reform. If not, sweeping and rapid reforms could backfire catastrophically, negatively affecting the lives of all Saudis."

"...the Palestinian leadership cannot continue to operate on both sides of the track. If the Palestinian leadership has some romantic ideas about the armed struggle, it needs to work at explaining their strategy to the Palestinian people and prepare them for a long and bloody future."

:: Memo to Rummy ::