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. “You lie!” was spoken by Rep. Joe Wilson, R-SC and was directed at President Obama during a joint session of Congress on the subject of health care.
Other pearls of wisdom from Sarah Palin, Falcon Heene, Kanye West, Gov. Mark Sanford and Sully Sullenberger can be found in the AP story.
RE: “You lie!'” on Yale Librarian’s List of Year’s Memorable Quo
The article also includes President Obama’s quote that the Cambridge (MA) police acted “stupidly” in arresting Henry Louis Gates, before Obama actually knew all the facts of the case.