top 10 quotes of the year

as listed in the Yale Book of Quotations:

10. "I think as far as the adverse impact on the nation around the world, this administration has been the worst in history."
-- Jimmy Carter, interview in Arkansas Democrat-Gazette, May 19


9. "I mean, you got the first mainstream African-American who is articulate and bright and clean and a nice-looking guy. I mean, that's a storybook, man."
-- Sen. Joseph Biden, D-Del., describing Sen. Barack Obama, quoted in New York Observer, Feb. 4


8. "[I have] a wide stance when going to the bathroom."
--Larry Craig, senator from Idaho, explaining why his foot touched that of an undercover policeman in a men's room (as noted by the interviewing policeman), June 11


7. "I'm not going to get into a name-calling match with somebody [Vice President Dick Cheney] who has a 9 percent approval rating."
-- Harry Reid, senator from Nevada, remarks to the media, April 24


6. "There's only three things he [Rudy Giuliani] mentions in a sentence: a noun and a verb and 9-11."
-- Joseph Biden, senator from Delaware, comment at Democratic presidential debate, Oct. 30


5. "I don't recall."
-- Alberto Gonzales, U.S. attorney general, repeated response to questioning about firing of U.S. attorneys, congressional testimony, April 19


4. "That's some nappy-headed hos there."
-- Don Imus about Rutgers University women's basketball team, Imus in the Morning radio broadcast, April 4


3. "In Iran we don't have homosexuals like in your country."
-- Mahmoud Ahmadinejad, president of Iran, at a Columbia University appearance, Oct. 10


2. "I personally believe that U.S. Americans are unable to do so because some people out there in our nation don't have maps and I believe that our education like such as South Africa and the Iraq everywhere like such as and I believe that they should our education over here in the U.S. should help the U.S. or should help South Africa and should help the Iraq and the Asian countries so we will be able to build up our future for our children."
-- Lauren Caitlin Upton, Miss South Carolina Teen USA, responding to a pageant question about why one-fifth of Americans are unable to locate the United States on a map, Aug. 24



1. "Don't tase me, bro!"
-- Andrew Meyer, University of Florida student who had been questioning Sen. John Kerry, being dragged away by campus police using a Taser stun gun, Sept. 17

final word on the imus thing

i have heard many, many explantions/opinions/ arguments about the whole don imus thing, but none was as, dare i say, head on as keith's explantion last night after cbs radio canned imus:

"Head On, a headache remedy designed to be applied directly to the forehead. Its manufacturers try to sell it with possibly the most obnoxious commercial of all time, in which the product's name is screamed repeatedly at the viewer. Wednesday night, Head On pulled its commercials from “Imus in the Morning.” When Head On thinks you are damaging its reputation, you can pretty much guess you are pretty much finished."