Larry Craig’s quote “(I have) a wide stance when going to the bathroom” and Iranian President Mahmoud Ahmadinejad’s statement “In Iran we don’t have homosexuals like in your country” made a list of year-end “best quotes” compiled by Fred R. Shapiro, an associate librarian and lecturer at the Yale Law School. Shapiro is the editor of The Yale Book of Quotations.
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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, referring to the Bush administration in an interview with 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, referring to rival Democratic presidential candidate Sen. Barack Obama
8. “(I have) a wide stance when going to the bathroom.”
Idaho Republican Sen. Larry Craig, explaining why his foot touched the foot of an undercover police officer in an airport men’s room
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, referring to Republican Vice President Dick Cheney
6. “There’s only three things he (Republican presidential candidate and former New York City Mayor Rudolph Giuliani) mentions in a sentence: a noun and a verb and 9/11.”
Sen. Joseph Biden, speaking during a debate for Democratic presidential candidates
5. “I don’t recall.”
Former U.S. Attorney Alberto Gonzales’ repeated response to questions from members of Congress about the firing of U.S. attorneys
4. “That’s some nappy-headed hos there.”
Radio personality Don Imus, referring to the Rutgers University women’s basketball team
3. “In Iran we don’t have homosexuals like in your country.”
Iranian President Mahmoud Ahmadinejad, during a speaking engagement at Columbia University in New York
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, the South Carolina contestant in the Miss Teen America contest, when asked why one-fifth of Americans cannot find the U.S on a map
1. “Don’t tase me, bro.”
Andrew Meyer, a senior at the University of Florida, after being hauled away by campus police during a speech made by Sen. John Kerry
