"The [Bush] aide said that guys like me were 'in what we call the
reality-based community,' which he defined as people who 'believe that
solutions emerge from your judicious study of discernible reality'. I
nodded and murmured something about enlightenment principles and
empiricism. He cut me off. 'That's not the way the world really works
any more,' he continued. 'We're an empire now, and when we act, we
create our own reality. And while you're studying that reality -
judiciously, as you will - we'll act again, creating other new
realities, which you can study too, and that's how things will sort out.
We're history's actors ... and you, all of you, will be left to just
study what we do.'"

Ron Suskind
Interviewing a senior Bush advisor
Journalist
November 4, 2004