04.25.06: Know Your Geography!

"...North Dakota: Do you know where that is? That is north of South Dakota."

Sen. Robert Byrd (D, WV)

Who needs Mapquest?
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Archive: Say it ain't so, Joe!

"I think the most fitting one-word tribute I can use to close a celebration on the Senate floor of ESPN's first great twenty-five years is to say simply and enthusiastically: Booyah."

Sen. Joseph Lieberman (D,CT)
09.07.04

Holy crap! Joe Lieberman just said "Booyah" on the Senate Floor?
(And yes, he said it about as enthusiastically as printed above.)
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Archive: Sunshine and Rainbows and Lollipops, Too!

"I believe in decency and Mary Poppins and all things nice."

Congressman Gary Ackerman (D,NY)
03.11.04

Like people taking responsibility for what they watch on TV? That would be awful nice. Yeah, and I believe in Santa Claus, too.
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Archive: Boxers or Briefs?

"If you are wearing Fruit of the Loom you are not wearing American underwear."

Sen. Byron Dorgan (D,ND)
03.09.04

Oh please, someone, write the soon-to-be-classic protest song "American Underwear" preferably to the tune of "American Woman."That would so rock.
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Archive: I Wanna Rock

"We have explored the moon in 1969 and 1970. It is a rock. We have seen pictures of Mars. It is also a rock."

Congressman Albert Wynn(D,MD)
01.20.04

I've seen the Hope Diamond. It's a rock. I've been to the beach. Sand is, like, a bunch of little rocks. I've seen Ayer's Rock. It's, well, yeah, it's a rock...
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Archive: Who Shot Bambi?

"He's right, Bambi doesn't wear body armor. Bambi doesn't need to wear body armor."

Sen. Larry Craig (R,ID)
02.26.04

Bambi doesn't wear body armor and Charlie don't surf.
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Archive: Democrats Can't Count!

"I want to know how you folks can raise a point of order when you can't even count the number of pages in a bill?"

Sen. Charles E. Grassley (R,IA)
11.24.03

Probably my favorite quote from the Medicare debates.
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