College Times

Issue date: 7/3/08 Section: Top 10s

Media Credit: Tomas Ovalle

10. "I feel like I am 20 again, but with arthritis," said Sylvester Stallone, who is 61, about his return to the big screen playing his old character, Rambo.

9. "My conscience will not allow me to continue with business as usual," Steven Spielberg said after he stepped down as artistic adviser for the Beijing Olympics in protest of China's stance on the conflict in Darfur.

8. "Dumbledore is gay," J.K. Rowling, author of the Harry Potter novels said, outing the headmaster of Hogwarts as a homosexual.

7. "People are at least as smart as goats, but maybe not as agile," said former Mississippi Republican Senator Trent Lott, about how he thinks building a fence to keep illegal immigrants out will fail.

6. "I want to be like Gandhi and Martin Luther King and John Lennon, but I want to stay alive," Madonna said about how she wishes her art and efforts around the world look to everyone else.

5. "I take a bath every day," Reverend Al Sharpton told the American people after Obama was deemed "the first African-American who is articulate, bright, clean and a nice-looking guy," by Joe Biden, a fellow Democratic presidential hopeful.

4. "I think playing golf during a war just sends the wrong signal," said President George W. Bush in regards to why he quit the game five years ago.

3. "Lab rat, guinea pig, disposable hero," said James Elliott, a former US Army sniper, about how he felt after he found out he was one of the dozens of Iraq war veterans being used to test pharmaceutical drugs linked to suicide.

2. "Thanks for the question, you little jerk. You're drafted," John McCain, Republican senator from Arizona, said to a high school student after being told that he was too old for the White House.

1. "I have a wide stance," said Larry Craig, the Republican senator from Idaho, who was caught in a sex-sting in a Minneapolis airport after he allegedly solicited sex in a men's bathroom.

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