As any ethical writer knows, when you quote someone, you don't leave out words to distort the original quotation according to your own ends.

Here's a lovely example of what NOT to do from The New Republic Online: "The Art of the Well-Placed Ellipsis."

Happily for students of writing everywhere, the '04 Presidential Campaign seems to be heating up early. During the months ahead, I anticipate finding lots of examples of what not to do with words (from all political parties).