"The more progress we make on the ground, the more free the Iraqis become, the more electricity is

"The more progress we make on the ground, the more free the Iraqis become, the more electricity is available, the more jobs are available, the more kids that are going to school, the more desperate these killers become. They can't stand the thought of a free society. They hate freedom. They love terror. They love to try to create fear and chaos."
President Bush
On recent violence in Iraq.
"It's a wind-driven fire, and it's almost as if the houses are the fuel."
Matt Mathes
U.S. Forest Service spokesman, on California's wildfires.