'Wash Post' Picks Top Quotes of 2005

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http://www.editorandpublisher.com/eandp/news/article_display.jsp?vnu_content_id=1001771716

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Here are a few of them:

"Let me start by telling you this: I have never used steroids. Period." -- Baseball slugger Rafael Palmiero to a congressional panel, which then considered perjury charges after he later tested positive.

"Matt, Matt, Matt, Matt, Matt, Matt, you don't even -- you're glib. You don't even know what Ritalin is. If you start talking about chemical imbalance, you have to evaluate and read the research papers on how they came up with these theories, Matt, okay? That's what I've done. ... You don't know the history of psychiatry. I do." -- Tom Cruise, in an interview with Matt Lauer on NBC's "Today" show.

Here is one that was first reported by E&P, based on an NPR interview: "What I'm hearing, which is sort of scary, is that they all want to stay in Texas. Everybody is so overwhelmed by the hospitality. So many people in this arena, here, you know, were underprivileged, so this is working very well for them." -- Barbara Bush, while visiting Katrina evacuees in the Houston Astrodome.

Then there is what Leibovich calls "the slam-dunk, read-my-lips, I-did-not-have-sexual-relations-with-that-woman 2005 doozie," a quote for the ages, or at least this decade:

"Brownie, you're doing a heckuva job." -- President Bush, during his first visit to the Gulf Coast after Hurricane Katrina, commending then-FEMA head Michael Brown.

[fishnfla]

1. " and you wear a bow tie"

Jon Stewart to Tucker Carlson on Crossfire. I thought that was a watershed moment of the year

[Fridays Child]

2. Jon v. Tucker was definitely a bright spot in the TV year.

:)

[OPERATIONMINDCRIME]

4. What A Classic!

Never have I seen a 20 second interaction from a guest cause the ultimate downfall of a show that's been on for years LOL

[efhmc]

3. The brownie quote was what popped into my head when I read the

headline. That one WILL stick.