2007's Best Quotes

'Don't Tase me, bro!'

--Andrew Meyer, a University of Florida student, shocked with a Taser by campus police after persistently questioning Sen. John Kerry at a university forum

'I was trying to get tickets to the show.'

--U.S. Atty. Patrick Fitzgerald, on why he appeared as a guest on Chicago Public Radio's "Wait, Wait ... Don't Tell Me!" a comedic quiz show

'Dumb as hell.'

--Assessment heard on White House audiotapes by then-President Richard Nixon of former Sen. Fred Thompson

'I think we're setting the bar too low when we say, "Look, isn't it great that we haven't had a statewide elected official go to jail recently?"'

--Bobby Jindal, Louisiana's new governor, who said his first priority is to change the state's reputation for corruption

'Don't you think I'm humiliated?'

--Don Imus, apologizing on the Rev. Al Sharpton's radio show for calling the Rugters University women's basketball team "nappy-headed hos"

'I'm Prince Tomohito the alcoholic.'

--Member of the Japanese royal family who broke a taboo by speaking about his drinking problem

'I blame myself. What mother wouldn't?'

--Lynne Spears, on her daughter Britney's trouble

'That old, eh, that old Beach Boys song, "Bomb Iran." Bomb, bomb, bomb, bomb, anyway, ah ...'

--Sen. John McCain (R-Ariz.), briefly singing the chorus of "Barbara Ann," a song made popular by the Beach Boys, in a joke about Iran

'As always, I rely on the jury system.'

--O.J. Simpson, facing 12 criminal charges in Nevada, including kidnapping and armed robbery

'I bet I can stay up longer than they can.'

--Republican Sen. Tom Coburn of Oklahoma, on Democrats who staged an all-night Senate debate on the Iraq war

' When I first heard about it I spent about a half-hour going around my house crying.'

--Oprah Winfrey, on learning of allegations that a dorm matron at her South African academy for disadvantaged girls had abused students

'I'm hiding under the desk. I'm very far under the desk.'

--Rep. Rahm Emanuel (D-Ill.), on his dilemma of whether to support Barack Obama or Hillary Rodham Clinton for president

'I'm a textualist. I'm an originalist. I'm not a nut.'

--U.S. Supreme Court Justice Antonin Scalia, on his strict adherence to the words of the U.S. Constitution

'There is a harsh reality here: When it comes to food, "Made in China" is now a warning label in the United States.'

--Sen. Dick Durbin (D-Ill.), on potentially deadly products reaching U.S. shores from China

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