Rules and principles are for suckers, winning is everything

[JHB]

7. And it's been so for a long time

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,' he continued. 'We're an empire now, and when we act, we create our own reality. And while you're studying that reality—judiciously, as you will—we'll act again, creating other new realities, which you can study too, and that's how things will sort out. We're history's actors...and you, all of you, will be left to just study what we do'.

-Ron Suskind, quoting a senior George W. Bush aide believed to be Karl Rove. "Faith, Certainty and the Presidency of George W. Bush". The New York Times Magazine, October 17, 2004.