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Quote of '07: Don't Tase Me, Bro!  

Posted Dec 19, 07 1:36 PM CST in Arts & Living    Most Covered

(newser) – As he was being arrested at a John Kerry rally, a college student yelled, “Don’t Tase me bro!” He was Tasered anyway, and that yell is the top quote of 2007, according to the Yale Book of Quotations. Here’s the rest:

  1. Miss Teen South Carolina’s “US Americans” answer
  2. “In Iran, we don’t have homosexuals like in your country” —Mahmoud Ahmadinejad

  1. “That’s some nappy-headed hos there” —Don Imus
  2. “I don’t recall” —Alberto Gonzalez
  3.  “There’s only three things (Rudy Giuliani) mentions in a sentence: a noun, a verb and 9/11” —Joe Biden
  4. “I’m not going to get in a name calling match with somebody (Dick Cheney) who has a 9% approval rating” —Harry Reid
  5. “I have a wide stance when I go to the bathroom” —Sen. Larry Craig

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