1. Teach your kids not to play in the damn street.

2. Daniel Pearl shouldn't have been where he was. He knew his wife was pregnant and he knew he was Jewish and he knew the region was hostile.

3. We have no business in Iraq.

4. If you're not hauling things or children, you don't need an SUV.

5. Nobody's belly needs to be exposed during the course of normal business.

6. When a person competing in extreme sports dies while participating in that sport, it's not tragic. It's destiny.

7. I believe the situation in Iraq is irretrievable. I don't think those people want democracy. I think that for all of recorded history they have lived under a dictatorship and they like it that way. If nothing else, it's the devil they know. If I were in charge, I'd bring all my men and women home and pursue the Hiroshima Method and let God sort it all out. Then I'd tend to my own damn knitting.