In case you haven't heard, the Yale Book of Quotations top quotes for 2007:

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

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 describing rival Democratic presidential candidate Barack
Obamaman."

8. "(I have) a wide stance when going to the bathroom." --Idaho Republican Sen. Larry Craig's explanation of why his foot touched that of an undercover policeman in a men's room

7. "I'm not going to get into a name-calling match with somebody (Vice President Cheney) who has a 9 percent approval rating." --Senate Majority Leader Harry Reid, a Democrat

6. "There's only three things he (Republican presidential candidate and former New York City Mayor Rudy Giuliani) mentions in a sentence: a noun and a verb and 9/11." --Biden speaking at a Democratic presidential debate

5. "I don't recall." --Former U.S. Attorney General Alberto Gonzales' repeated response to questioning at a congressional hearing about the firing of U.S. attorneys

4. "That's some nappy-headed hos there." --Shock jock Don Imus on the Rutgers University women's basketball team after the national championship game

3. "In Iran we don't have homosexuals like in your country." --Iranian President Mahmoud Ahmadinejad at Columbia University in October

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 in South Africa and Iraq and 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 Iraq and the Asian countries so we will be able to build up our future for us." --Lauren Upton, South Carolina's Miss Teen America contestant when asked why one-fifth of Americans are unable to locate the United States on a map



And the number one quote of 2007...

"Don't Tase me, bro." --University of Florida student Andrew Meyer as he tried to stop campus police from throwing him out of a speech by Sen. John Kerry
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And yes, you can buy the t-shirt...
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"As Violence Falls in Iraq, Cemetery Workers Feel the Pinch" McClatchy News Service

"I do believe that it's the first time in history that fire has ever melted steel." Rosie

"Al-Qaeda really hurt us, but not as much as Rupert Murdoch has hurt us, particularly in the case of Fox News. Fox News is worse than al-Qaeda, worse for our society. It's as dangerous as the Ku Klux Klan ever was." Keith Olberman

"There are times when he sounds like Jesus in the temple." Chris Matthews speaking of Bill Clinton at the funeral of Coretta Scott King

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Originally Posted by tomder55

"I do believe that it's the first time in history that fire has ever melted steel." Rosie

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LOL, should have easily made the list. I liked these as well:

Since when did I become the spokesperson for nappy-headed hos?" - Wanda Sykes, on being contacted by every media outlet for her views on Don Imus. She added, I "thought Imus died, like, nine years ago.. . [He has] one of those faces that belongs in the obituaries."

“Aww don’t feel noways tired. I’ve come too faarrr from where I started frum…Aww could have listened all day luung." -Hillary Clinton at the 2007 "Bloody Sunday'' commemoration in Selma, AL

"It was an unidentified flying object, OK? It's, like, it's unidentified." - Dennis Kucinich

"This war is lost, and this surge is not accomplishing anything, as is shown by the extreme violence in Iraq this week." -Harry Reid in April of this year

The hits just keep comin'...

“Biking through New York’s boroughs in 2005, I thought about some old friends, Joe and Eileen Bailey. Though they are imaginary, I frequently talk to them.” -Chuck Schumer

“I’m just saying if he did die, other people, more people would live. That’s a fact.” -Bill Maher on is his disappointment over the failure of a plot to kill Cheney

“You’re also looking at a [global warming] solution here in Europe: smaller vehicles, more energy efficient, many which use diesel fuel which is more efficient. And the price of gas here is $6 a gallon to discourage guzzling. A lot of big ideas and innovations coming out of Europe.” -ABC’s Chris Cuomo reporting from Paris for Earth Day

“As part of our ongoing series of reports on the environment, ‘America Goes Green,’ we take on the question that can make otherwise competent adults quake with fear. We’ve all been there. You come to the end of the checkout line and then comes that question: ‘Paper or plastic?’ For that one brief moment, we grocery buyers are made to feel like the fate of the planet hinges on our decision.” -NBC’s Brian Williams on the May 7 Nightly News.

“How long it would take nature to fix the mess we’ve made?...Would the Earth miss us at all? How long would it take for it to fix the problems we created?” -Matt Lauer on NBC’s Today, September 4 on the book The World Without Us.

And if the earth fixed the mess we made and nobody was there to see it...

I propose a two-part quote for the list.

"I propose a limitation be put on how many squares of toilet paper can be used in any one sitting. Now, I don't want to rob any law-abiding American of his or her God-given rights, but I think we are an industrious enough people that we can make it work with only one square per restroom visit, except, of course, on those pesky occasions where 2 to 3 could be required. When presenting this idea to my younger brother, who's judgement I trust implicitly, he proposed taking it one step further. I believe his quote was, "how about just washing the one square out."" --- singer Sheryl Crow,

"She wants everyone to use one square of toilet paper to wipe. 'All I want to do is have some fun.' One little thing? Has she seen my a**?" --- Rosie O'Donnell in response to Sheryl Crow, above.

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Yes, Rosie... EVERYONE has seen your a**. We can't miss it, much as we try.

Men on the moon say "Is that a Mountain? Nope, it's Rosie's a**."

Rosie's a** is so big it has its own natural sattelites.

Scientists are trying to solve the over-population problem by trying to figure out a way to colonize Rosie's a**. But it seems to be too hostile of an environment to support life.

There was a report of a solar eclipse last week, but a correction had to be published: "That's not an eclipse, that's Rosie's a**."

I hear that the Japanese have emergency contigency plans in place in case they ever get a visit from huge monsters like Godzilla, Gamorah, or Rosie's a**.

Chinese people wanted to meet with Rosie personally to discuss her insult of their language on the view. But they couldn't get close enough to talk to her. Apparently, there's a three mile perimeter around Rosie... it's called her a**.

Elliot

I am still in wonderment over this one,
10. "I think as far as the adverse impact on the nation around the world, this administration has been the worst in history." --Former President Jimmy Carter in an interview in the Arkansas Democrat-Gazette newspaper

Isn't that like the pot calling the kettle black? I don't remember Carter being a great contribution to the world. Although, to give him some credit, he was talking sustainable and green long before Al Gore, and he meant it. Wasn't just a political venture for him.

Until Carter former Presidents and Vice Presidents did not go around the world slamming the current President and undermining American foreign policy. He is a disgrace. I had admired some of his post-Presidency activities ,and am still a supporter of 'Habitat for Humanity' but he should just shut up and build houses.

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"This war is lost, and this surge is not accomplishing anything, as is shown by the extreme violence in Iraq this week." -Harry Reid in April of this year

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"the surge certainly hasn't hurt. It's helped. I recognize that' --- Sen. Harry Reid, 12/21/07

"I ordered a Hummer hybrid." Paris Hilton

Hillary Clinton flip-flops in the same statement about issuing drivers licenses to illegal aliens during a debate : "They are driving on our roads..The possibility of them having an accident that harms themselves or others is just a matter of the odds."

"I just want to add, I did not say that it should be done, but I certainly recognize why Gov. Spitzer is trying to do it. And we have failed."

Or this gem from Joe Biden :

"I spent last summer going through the black sections of my town holding rallies in parks trying to get black men to understand it's not unmanly to wear a condom. Getting women to understand they can say no. Getting people in the position where testing matters. I got tested for AIDS. I know Barack got tested for AIDS. There's no shame in being tested for AIDS."

To which Obama replied :"I got tested with Michelle when we were in Kenya, in Africa. I don't want there to be any confusion here"

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Isn't that like the pot calling the kettle black? I don't remember Carter being a great contribution to the world. Although, to give him some credit, he was talking sustainable and green long before Al Gore, and he meant it. Wasn't just a political venture for him.

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Until he acquired BDS I used to not question Carter's sincerity.

Kathryn Jean Lopez reminded me of yet another Hillary gem:

"I think that the reports that you provide to us really require the willing suspension of disbelief." -Hillary Clinton to Gen. Petraeus prior to his September report

I should add these that Lopez mentioned also:

"General Petraeus or General Betray Us?" -MoveOn

"Simply put: A year ago, Al Qaeda was winning in Iraq. Now we are." -Sens. McCain and Lieberman

A late entry comes from The View discussion about Democrat Senator Tim Johnson's illness .


Joy Behar: “Is there such a thing as a man-made stroke? In other words, did someone do this to him?...”
Elisabeth Hasselbeck: “Why is everything coming from the liberal perspective a conspiracy?...”
Behar: “I know what this [Republican] Party is capable of.”

That was another good one tom, and the gems just keep coming:

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“One of the reasons we’ve had incidents of violence, sectarian violence go down is because they are running out of people to kill... they’ve killed so many in so many areas, that there are fewer opportunity targets... " -David Obey (D.-Wisc.) at a National Press Club luncheon on why violence is down in Iraq

"Sure, there's less violence, but that's because we've ethnically cleansed most of Baghdad." -Jim Moran (D-VA) offering Obey a more specific theory

"You don't have money to fund the war or children. "But you're going to spend it to blow up innocent people if we can get enough kids to grow old enough for you to send to Iraq to get their heads blown off for the president's amusement." -Pete Stark (D-CA)

"In case you missed it, a few days ago Senator Clinton tried to spend $1 million on the Woodstock concert museum. Now, ladies and gentlemen, I wasn't there. I'm sure it was a cultural and pharmaceutical event. I was tied up at the time." -John McCain

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And this one for excon:

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"The point was to inhale. That was the point." -Barack Obama

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I think I like the Wanda Sykes quote the best.

Here is a "goode" (heehee):

"I fear that radical Muslims ... would love to see 'In God We Trust' stricken from our money and replaced with 'In Muhammad We Trust.'"
- Rep. Virgil Goode (R-Virginia), on the house floor

Some more:

"That's because I read it."
- Rep. Dennis Kucinich, explaining why he was the only candidate at the Las Vegas Democratic debate who had voted against the Patriot Act


"People use music as a utensil to better themselves."
- Jessica Simpson


"As always, I rely on the jury system."
- O.J. Simpson, after a judge refused to dismiss his latest criminal charges


"I want to be like Gandhi and Martin Luther King and John Lennon – but I want to stay alive."
- Madonna

Sykes' quote was classic. :D

Came across a few more...

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'Bye. I don't think we'll miss you.' -Cherie Blair to the media as she left Downing Street.

'He was cremated and I couldn't resist grinding him up with a bit of blow.' -Keith Richards on how he snorted his father's ashes.

"Who's Lee King?" —Mel B. when asked her opinion on the Spice Girls' music being leaked on the Internet

“I’m a fan.” -Oliver Stone on Hugo Chavez

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'He was cremated and I couldn't resist grinding him up with a bit of blow.' -Keith Richards on how he snorted his father's ashes.


Although I wouldn't put it past him, this was determined to be a joke that Richards and Jagger were putting on.