Who Said "We Make Reality" Quote?

[Exapno_Mapcase]

In 2004 Ron Suskind published an article with this amazing quote in it:

“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.’ I nodded and murmured something about enlightenment principles and empiricism. He cut me off. ‘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.’”

It was credited to an unnamed senior Bush adviser. Has anyone revealed the name of this advisor since the original article came out?

[Sevastopol]

I recall that some senior Washington DC journalists believe it to be Karl Rove himself.