Reid’s deadpan remark about Vice President Dick Cheney — "I’m not going to get into a name-calling match with somebody who has a 9 percent approval rating." — was No. 7 on the Top 10 list of quotes for year. ("Don’t tase me, bro," was No. 1, by the way.)

Reid wasn’t the only senator on the list, either. Delaware Sen. Joe Biden had two entries, the first at No. 6 his now-famous crack about Republican presidential candidate Rudy Giuliaini: "There’s only three things he mentions in a sentence: a noun, a verb and 9/11."

Then there was his much more infamous remark, at No. 9, a reference to fellow senator and presidential hopeful Barack Obama: "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." (Biden later apologized for the remark.)

Our favorite? "I don’t recall," uttered repeatedly and in myriad forms by ex-Attorney General Alberto Gonzales dozens of times when trying to fend off the Senate’s Judiciary Committee investigation into why he fired several U.S. attorneys.