The theory that democracy is the antidote to insurgency gets disproved on the ground every day.

Democracy is the theory that the common people know what they want and deserve to get it good and hard.

This is a paranoid regime. Even if the development of the Caucasus airfields … even if it weren't about them, they would assume it was about them. So that in and of itself will likely provoke a response. The Iranians are not inert targets! If they started to think we were moving in the direction of a military move against them, they would start fighting us right away.

[Kenneth Pollack of National Defense University said Saddam Hussein felt he had not lost anything and perhaps gained something from previous crises.] In either of those circumstances, ... it's worth something to him to try it again.

There is no controversy within science over the core proposition of evolutionary theory.

I stupidly switched drivers the first day and I was snipe-hooking it. The second day I hit my regular driver and averaged 305 yards.