Most Notable Quotes of 2006

[Scot LaFaive]

Damn, I have to go with Limbaugh. That sounds just way beyond stupid. That's
the first I heard it, but it sure is notable.

Scot


>From: Fred Shapiro <fred.shapiro at YALE.EDU>
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>Subject: Re: Most Notable Quotes of 2006
>Date: Wed, 24 Jan 2007 19:21:21 -0500
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>On Wed, 24 Jan 2007, Mark A. Mandel wrote:
>
> > I count 10 quotes in that list, but one of them is an additional Bushism
> > from Global Language Monitor. So, Fred, which of yours did Reuters leave
> > out?
>
>I actually gave the Reuters reporter a list of 14 quotations, which he
>then reduced to a top 10, putting them into a definite order whereas my
>list was unordered, but he left out #10.  So I think I am free to now name
>#10 as an ADS-L exclusive.  But I can't decide right now among the five
>worthy contenders.  Here they are (I welcome input on which I should
>choose):
>
>Yesterday, the devil came here, right here, right here, and it smells of
>sulfur still today. The president of the United States, the gentleman to
>whom I refer as the devil, came here talking as if he owned the world,
>truly as the owner of the world.
>          Hugo Chavez, President of Venezuela, Address to United Nations,
>          Sept. 20, 2006
>
>The situation in Iraq is grave and deteriorating.
>          Iraq Study Group Report (2006)
>
>I have had it with these motherfucking snakes on this motherfucking plane!
>          Samuel L. Jackson, playing Nelville Flynn, Snakes on a Plane
>          (motion picture) (2006)
>
>Education, if you make the most of it, and you study hard, and you do
>your homework, and you make an effort to be smart, you can do well. If you
>don't, you get stuck in Iraq.
>          John Kerry, Remarks at Pasadena City College, Pasadena, Cal.,
>Oct.
>         30, 2006
>
>This is Michael J. Fox. He`s got Parkinson`s disease. And in this
>commercial, he is exaggerating the effects of the disease. He is moving
>all around and shaking, and it`s purely an act.
>          Rush Limbaugh, "Rush Limbaugh Show" radio show, Oct. 23, 2006
>
>Fred Shapiro
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