"Israel’s proposals are far below the minimum acceptable to the Palestinians. Even the “virtual” Geneva accord, which bespeaks a better deal for the Palestinians than the rejected Barak proposals of Camp David and Taba, failed to gain strong Palestinian endorsement."

"If Israel were required to obey the law and abandoned its illegal occupations, the position of Palestinian terrorists would be instantly undercut. Funding for Palestinian terrorism, such as it is, would dry up. And it is very clear that Palestinian support for violent resistance would plummet in the advent of an Israeli withdrawal."

"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."