OBAMA, KANYE MAKE YALE'S ANNUAL 'BOOK OF QUOTES': 'You Lie' and "We did this for the show' also make the top 10.
Fred Shapiro, associate librarian and lecturer in legal research at Yale Law School, has compiled the annual tally, which has at No. 5 "The Cambridge police acted stupidly." This was Obama, commenting on a white police officer's arrest of black scholar Henry Louis Gates Jr. at his home in Cambridge, Mass., at a news conference July 22. The furor it caused on both sides led to a "beer summit" at the White House between all three parties.
At No. 4: "You lie!" Rep. Joe Wilson, R-S.C shouted this retort to Obama's address before a joint session of Congress on Sept. 9.
The 6th most memorable quote of 2009, according to the Yale book, came courtesy of Kanye West. "I'm going to let you finish, but Beyonce had one of the best videos of all time!," he said, interrupting Taylor Swift's acceptance speech at the MTV Video Music Awards on Sept. 13.
Captain Chesley "Sully" Sullenberger's "We're going to be in the Hudson" made a safe landing at No. 2, and the list was topped by a random speaker at a health care reform town hall meeting in Simpsonville, S.C. Commenting on the government-created Medicare program, he shouted, "Keep your government hands off my Medicare."
The rest of the top 10 are:
3. "There's an app for that." Apple's advertising slogan for the iPhone.
7. "Um, you guys said that we, um, did this for the show." Falcon Heene, during an interview on CNN about his parents' balloon hoax on Oct. 15.
8. "The America I know and love is not one in which my parents or my baby with Down Syndrome will have to stand in front of Obama's 'death panel.'" Palin, posting on her Facebook page on Aug. 7.
9. "The governor is hiking the Appalachian Trail." Spokesman for South Carolina Gov. Mark Sanford regarding Sanford's disappearance on June 22.
10. "You give me a water board, Dick Cheney and one hour, and I'll have him confess to the Sharon Tate murders." Jesse Ventura, during a CNN interview May 11.
