Most Notable Quotations of 2010 (UNCLASSIFIED)

[Dan Goncharoff]

I would add to the list of quotations:

Where in the Constitution is separation of church and state?
Christine O'Donnell

I don't know that all of you are Latinos. Some of you look a little
more Asian to me.
Sharron Angle

DanG

On Mon, Nov 22, 2010 at 9:53 AM, Mullins, Bill AMRDEC
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> "If you touch my junk, I'm gonna have you arrested" seems to be gaining
> currency -- it probably will be this year's "Don't tase me, bro!"
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>> I am now working on my list for the Associated Press of the top 10
> most
>> notable quotations of the year.  By "notable" I mean "important" or
> "famous"
>> or "particularly revealing of the spirit of our times" rather than
> necessarily
>> being eloquent or admirable.
>>
>> Some of the possibiliities (many of them very helpfully suggested by
> Ben
>> Zimmer) include:
>>
>> Government isn't what our Founding Fathers put into the Constitution.
>> Sharron Angle
>>
>> I'd like my life back.
>> Tony Hayward
>>
>> Dude, you have no Koran!
>> Jacob Isom
>>
>> I'm going to take my talents to South Beach.
>> LeBron James
>>
>> I'm not a witch.  I'm nothing you've heard.  I'm you.
>> Christine O'Donnell
>>
>> We live in hard times, not End Times.
>> Jon Stewart
>>
>> I would welcome suggestions of additional quotes from 2010,
> particularly ones
>> from politics or popular culture or entertainment or sports or
> business or
>> technology.
>>
>> Fred Shapiro

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