The ten best qotes of 2007:

1. Don’t tase me bro!
University of Florida student Andrew Meyer’s plea went unanswered, as police subdued the unruly Meyer with a taser at a John F. Kerry speech on campus.

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 our children.

Miss Teen USA contestant Lauren Upton of South Carolina gave this tortured, confused answer to the question “Recent polls have shown a fifth of Americans can’t locate the US on a map. Why do you think this is?”

3. In Iran we don’t have homosexuals like in your country.
Always controversial, Iranian President Mahmoud Ahmadinejad drew laughs at Columbia University in September when he doubted the existence of homosexuals in his country.

4. That’s some nappy-headed hos there.
Morning radio host Don Imus lost his job for this remark about the Rutgers women’s basketball team.

5. I don’t recall.

Former US attorney general Alberto Gonzales’s frequent response during Congressional hearings about the firing of US attorneys.

6. There’s only three things he mentions in a sentence: a noun and a verb and 9/11.

Delaware Senator and Democratic presidential candidate Joseph Biden on Republican Rudy Giuliani.

7. I’m not going to get into a name-calling match with somebody who has a 9 percent approval rating.

Senate Majority Leader Harry Reid, a Democrat from Nevada, delivered this zinger while talking about Republican Vice President Dick Cheney. Reid (left), spoke while Senator Carl Levin, a Democrat from Michigan, stood in the background.

8. (I have) a wide stance when going to the bathroom.

Idaho Senator Larry Craig, explaining why he tapped an undercover police officer on the foot in a bathroom stall in a Minneapolis airport. Craig was arrested and accused of soliciting sex in the bathroom.

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.

Senator Joseph Biden’s second quote of the year was far more complimentary, talking about fellow Democratic presidential candidate Barack Obama.

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, a Democrat, expressed his distaste for Republican George Bush’s tenure in office to the Arkansas Democrat-Gazette newspaper.

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