Top Ten Quotes of 2008 compiled by the editor of the Yale Book of Quotations:

[Ichingcarpenter]

1. "I can see Russia from my house!" — Comedian Tina Fey, while impersonating Alaska Gov. Sarah Palin on the TV comedy show "Saturday Night Live," broadcast Sept. 13.

2. "All of them, any of them that have been in front of me over all these years." — Palin, responding to a request by CBS anchor Katie Couric to name the newspapers or magazines she reads, broadcast Oct. 1.

3. "We have sort of become a nation of whiners." — former Sen. Phil Gramm, an economic adviser to Republican presidential candidate Sen. John McCain, quoted in The Washington Times, July 10.

4. "It's not based on any particular data point, we just wanted to choose a really large number." — a Treasury Department spokeswoman explaining how the $700 billion number was chosen for the initial bailout, quoted on Forbes.com Sept. 23.

5. "The fundamentals of America's economy are strong." — McCain, in an interview with Bloomberg TV, April 17.

6. "Decisions by the Secretary pursuant to the authority of this Act are non-reviewable and committed to agency discretion, and may not be reviewed by any court of law or any administrative agency." — the Treasury Department's proposed Emergency Economic Stabilization Act, September 2008.




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I highlighted two I thought were alarming,

the others were funny, amusing, sadly ironic or all three.

[Muttocracy]

1. I think "a noun, a verb, and 9/11" was far better and more important than some of those.

x(

And you're right about the alarming ones...

[Ichingcarpenter]

2. That one should have made the top ten with the others

It made me smile.

[Adenoid_Hynkel]

5. single-handedly killed the Rudy campaign

by making it OK for the media to finally make fun of him for his 9/11 exploitation

[samsingh]

7. i think these are stupid quotes of the year

[Odin2005]

8. That's my favorite Biden quote!

It just MASSACRED Ghouliani.

[Fearless]

3. I love how Tina Fey's fake Sarah Palin was more memorable than the real one!

:rofl:

[DeepModem Mom]

4. K&R

[samsingh]

6. regarding gramm's stupid comment #3

isn't someone whinning about whinners being a whinner themselves?

[Odin2005]

9. Pukes don't understand that form of irony.