OOPS! Here are the Top 10 quotes of 2008, as compiled by the editor of the Yale Book of Quotations:
#10 (tie) - "Anyone who says we're in a recession, or heading into one -- especially the worst one since the Great Depression -- is making up his own private definition of "recession." -- commentator Donald Luskin, the day before Lehman Brothers filed for bankruptcy, The Washington Post, Sept. 14
"There are no atheists in foxholes and there are no libertarians in financial crises." -- Krugman, in an interview with Bill Maher on HBO's "Real Time," broadcast Sept. 19
"Cash for trash." -- Paul Krugman discussing the financial bailout, New York Times, Sept. 22
#9 - "Barack, he's talking down to black people. ... I want to cut his ... off." -- Rev. Jesse Jackson, overheard over a live microphone before a Fox News interview, July 6
#8 - "I'll see you at the debates, b------." -- Paris Hilton in a video responding to a McCain television ad, August 2008
#7 - "Maybe 100." -- McCain, discussing in a town hall meeting in Derry, N.H., how many years U.S. troops could remain in Iraq, Jan. 3
#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
#5 - "The fundamentals of America's economy are strong." -- McCain, in an interview with Bloomberg TV, April 17
#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
#3 - "We have sort of become a nation of whiners." -- former Sen. Phil Gramm, an economic adviser to Sen. John McCain, quoted in The Washington Times, July 10
#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
#1 - "I can see Russia from my house!" -- Comedian Tina Fey, while impersonating Alaska Gov. Sarah Palin on "Saturday Night Live," broadcast Sept. 13
#3 - "We have sort of become a nation of whiners." -- former Sen. Phil Gramm, an economic adviser to Sen. John McCain, quoted in The Washington Times, July 10
#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
#1 - "I can see Russia from my house!" -- Comedian Tina Fey, while impersonating Alaska Gov. Sarah Palin on "Saturday Night Live," broadcast Sept. 13
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