Thomas L. Friedman:

Whenever I was asked during the Iraq war, “How will you know when we’ve won?” I gave the same answer: When Salman Rushdie can give a lecture in Baghdad; when there is real freedom of speech in the heart of the Arab-Muslim world.

Wow, talk about your amazing coincidences! Everybody would pester me too with that exact same question during the Iraq war, and I’d always give them that exact same answer! Then I’d make sort of a tent with my hands and look really wise.