Quotes of the Year

Quite a few of them should be labeled quite differently.  I'll leave your imagination to come up with good ones too!

Here's the list: (msnbc.com)


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.   I'm sorry - but I thought the government ran Medicare??

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.  What an amazing landing with a talented crew.


3. "There's an app for that." Apple's advertising slogan for the iPhone.  I wish there were apps for a lot more things - like having chomper quit chomping.

4. "You lie!" Wilson's shouted retort to Obama's address before a joint session of Congress on Sept. 9.  He will be quoted in history books for his - the only member of Congress that had the chutzpah to shout something at the President of the United States.

5. "The Cambridge police acted stupidly." 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.  Why are you even getting involved in this?? 


6. "I'm going to let you finish, but Beyonce had one of the best videos of all time! One of the best videos of all time!" Kanye West, interrupting Taylor Swift's acceptance speech at the MTV Video Music Awards on Sept. 13.  What a jerk - karma.

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.  These parents should be hung by their toenails.  I hear it's extremely painful to lose  them :)

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. and she can see Putin from her house.

9. "The governor is hiking the Appalachian Trail." Spokesman for South Carolina Gov. Mark Sanford regarding Sanford's disappearance on June 22.  I bet he did.

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.  Why doesn't he just go back to wrestling or better yet do commercials for the hair club for men!