'You Lie!' On Yale List Of Year's Memorable Quotes

[Kadie]

Dec 16, 2009 8:04 am US/Pacific
'You Lie!' On Yale List Of Year's Memorable Quotes

NEW HAVEN (AP) ― The fierce debate over health care hasn't led to a new law yet, but it's produced some of this year's top quotes, according to a Yale University librarian.

Fred Shapiro, associate librarian and lecturer in legal research at Yale Law School, is releasing his fourth annual list of The Yale Book of Quotations. His top quote: "Keep your government hands off my Medicare," by a speaker at a town hall meeting in South Carolina in July.

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1. "Keep your government hands off my Medicare." Speaker at health care reform town hall meeting in Simpsonville, S.C., commenting on the government-created Medicare program, quoted by The Washington Post on July 28.

2. "We're going to be in the Hudson." Captain Chesley "Sully" Sullenberger, responding to air traffic controllers asking on which runway he preferred to land US Airways Flight 1549 on Jan. 15 before he landed in the Hudson River.

3. "There's an app for that." Apple's advertising slogan for the iPhone.

4. "You lie!" Wilson's shouted retort to Obama's address before a joint session of Congress on Sept. 9.


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[Captain Hilts]

1. "I'm going to make that audience rock." nt

[Kerrytravelers]

2. I think Sarah Palin should have her own special edition volume. Also, too, there. *wink* *wiggle*

[Winterblues]

4. And don't forget "I Quit"

:shrug:

[phasma ex machina]

3. Bartlett's worthy, one presumes. nt