"The public campaign finance system is broken. George Bush and presidential candidate Howard Dean have each turned down public funds, allowing the them to avoid the $45 million spending cap."

"Electronic-voting machine manufacturers are circling their wagons trying to ease the security concerns raised in the last few months that their machines are susceptible to being hacked and subject to voter fraud."

"How many Americans have died in Iraq that we have never heard counted amongst the tallies of "official" U.S. soldiers?"

"Terrorism is not a science, it is an opportunistic approach to hurting a militarily superior enemy, although it is clearly possible to put a lot of cumbersome words around the topic."

"...the West and Israel are engaged in military action, they have created a climate, whereby “terrorism” is almost synonymously portrayed with the actions of non-State actors. Hence State terrorism is never a key feature of any discourse on the subject."

"A major flaw of the book is that Manji has a tendency to jump from one story to the other, without rationalizing the need and the context for doing so."

"Although they are classified as weapons of mass destruction, and the US makes much of their terrorist potential, history suggests that the real value of nuclear weapons is in having them as a deterrent. Certainly the Cold War was much cooler than it might have been had one of the two side had an advanage in terms of nuclear weapons."

"Apart from the immorality of U.S. actions, imitating anything Israeli in an Arab country is horrendous public relations, which is likely to make the population even more hostile."