The 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.... That's not the way the world really works anymore.. We're an empire now, and when we act, we create our own reality."

Interview with an unnamed aide to President George W. Bush (later identified as Karl Rove); New York Times Magazine [October 17, 2004]. Without a Doubt