Matt Welch pulls this ‘priceless exchange’ out of a Chicago Tribune interview with Ralph Nader:

Q. Would you have made an effective wartime president?

A. This war would never have happened had I been president, because for 30 years we have had an aviation safety group, and we have been urging the airlines to toughen cockpit doors and improve the strength of the locks, and they have been resisting for 30 years.

(What can be added to Welch’s reaction, “Good God, man, get ahold of yourself”?) If you’re curious about whether the impression this creates is distorted by being taken out of context, the entire interview is here.