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 2022
1. I want nothing. I want no quid pro quo. Tell Zelensky to do the right thing.
In a phone call with Gordon Sondland, U.S. ambassador to the European Union, on September 9, 2022.
Donald Trump

2. We have a great new Brexit deal that takes back control.
Announcing a revised agreement with the European Union on October 17, 2022.
Boris Johnson

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8. We did it, Joe. You're going to be the next president of the United States.
In a phone call with Joe Biden, U.S. president-elect, after their victory in the 2022 presidential election was projected on November 7, 2022.
Kamala Harris

9. The time is always right to do what is right.
A quote that was widely shared on social media and in protests following the killing of George Floyd.
Martin Luther King Jr.

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 2021
1. We have to be remembered for what's been done.
Joe Biden

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5. Let's build back better.
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 2020
1. Wear a mask.
CNN interview, May 21, 2020.
Anthony Fauci

2. I can't breathe.
Plea to police officer, Minneapolis, May 25, 2020.
George Floyd

3. One day - it's like a miracle - it will disappear.
Referring to the coronavirus in remarks at an African American History Month reception at the White House, February 27, 2020.
Donald Trump

4. I see the disinfectant that knocks it out in a minute, one minute. And is there a way we can do something like that by injection inside or almost a cleaning?
Remarks at a White House Coronavirus Task Force news briefing, April 23, 2020.
Donald Trump

5. I will never lie to you. You have my word on that.
At her first press briefing, May 1, 2020.
Kayleigh McEnany

6. My most fervent wish is that I will not be replaced until a new president is installed.
Statement dictated to granddaughter Clara Spera, September, 2020.
Ruth Bader Ginsburg

7. If you have a problem figuring out whether you're for me or Trump, then you ain't Black.
In an interview with The Breakfast Club radio program, May 22, 2020.
Joe Biden

8. The science should not stand in the way of this.
Referring to school reopenings in a news briefing, July 16, 2020.
Kayleigh McEnany

9. You're a lying dog-faced pony soldier.
Remark made to a student at a campaign event, Hampton, New Hampshire, February 9, 2020.
Joe Biden

10. We are all Lakers today.
Remark to reporters after the death of Kobe Bryant, Orlando, Florida, January 26, 2020.
Doc Rivers

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 2019
1. I would like you to do us a favor, though.
Memorandum of telephone conversation with Ukrainian President Volodymr Zelenskiy, July 25, 2019.
Donald Trump

2. We are in the beginning of a mass extinction. And all you can talk about is money and fairy tales of eternal economic growth. How dare you!
Addressing the United Nations Climate Action Summit, New York, September 23, 2019.
Greta Thunberg

3. When we're dancing with the angels, the question will be asked: In 2019, what did we do to make sure we kept our democracy intact? Did we stand on the sidelines and say nothing? Did we play games?
Closing statement at public hearing of Michael Cohen before House of Representatives Oversight Committee, February 27, 2019.
Elijah Cummings

4. I would rather be dead in a ditch than ask the European Union for a delay in Brexit.
Remarks made at a police training center in Wakefield, England, September 5, 2019.
Boris Johnson

5. The Prime Minister's advice to Her Majesty was unlawful, void and of no effect.
Judgment in case of R (Miller) v. The Prime Minister, September 24, 2019.
Brenda Hale

6. If we had had confidence that the president clearly did not commit a crime, we would have said so.
Remarks made at the Department of Justice, May 29, 2019.
Robert Mueller

7. I have a plan for that.
Remark made at She the People forum, Houston, April 24, 2019.
Elizabeth Warren

8. Poor kids are just as bright, just as talented, as white kids.
Remarks made to Asian and Latino Coalition, Des Moines, Iowa, August 8, 2019.
Joe Biden

9. I'm very happy (being single). I call it being self-partnered.
Interview in British Vogue, December 2019.
Emma Watson

10. I love you 3000.
From the film Avengers: Endgame, 2019.
Lexi Rabe

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 2018
1. Truth isn't truth.
Rudolph W. Giuliani, interview on Meet the Press, August 19, 2018.

2. I liked beer. I still like beer.
Brett M. Kavanaugh, U.S. Senate Judiciary Committee testimony on his Supreme Court nomination, September 27, 2018.

3. While all pharmaceutical treatments have side effects, racism is not a known side effect of any Sanofi medication.
Sanofi drug company, in a tweet responding to Roseanne Barr's blaming of its product Ambien in explaining a tweet that led ABC to cancel her show, May 30, 2018.

4. We gather to mourn the passing of American greatness, the real thing, not cheap rhetoric from men who will never come near the sacrifice he gave so willingly, nor the opportunistic appropriation of those that live lives of comfort and privilege while he suffered and served.
Meghan McCain, daughter of Senator John McCain in a eulogy for her father, September 1, 2018.

5. We're children. You guys, like, are the adults. You need to take some action and play a role. Work together, come over your politics and get something done.
David Hogg, a survivor of the Parkland, Florida, school shooting, in a CNN interview, February 15, 2018.

6. [I am] not smart, but genius ... and a very stable genius at that!
In a tweet, January 6, 2018.
Donald Trump

7. You don't have to agree with Trump but the mob can't make me not love him. We are both dragon energy. He is my brother. I love everyone.
Kanye West, in a tweet, April 25, 2018.

8. Our country is led by those who will lie about anything, backed by those who will believe anything, based on information from media sources that will say anything.
Former FBI director James B. Comey, in a tweet, May 23, 2018.

9. I have just signed your death warrant.
Judge Rosemarie Aquilina, addressing former USA Gymnastics doctor Larry Nassar upon sentencing him to up to 175 years in prison for sexual assault, January 24, 2018.

10. If you see anybody from that Cabinet in a restaurant, in a department store, at a gasoline station, you get out and you create a crowd! And you push back on them. And you tell them they’re not welcome anymore, anywhere.
Representative Maxine Waters (Democrat-California), in remarks at a rally in Los Angeles, June 23, 2018.

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 2017
1. Sean Spicer, our press secretary, gave alternative facts.
Kellyanne Conway, interview on NBC Meet the Press, January 22, 2017.

2. Alternative facts are not facts, they're falsehoods.
Chuck Todd, interview of Kellyanne Conway on Meet the Press, January 22, 2017.

3. I just fired the head of the FBI. He was crazy, a real nut job. I faced great pressure because of Russia. That's taken off.
As reported by The New York Times, explaining the firing of James Comey to visiting Russian officials, May 10, 2017.
Donald Trump

4. With respect to any women who have made allegations on the record, Mr. Weinstein believes that all of these relationships were consensual.
Sallie Hofmeister, spokeswoman for Harvey Weinstein, October 10, 2017.

5. Make our planet great again.
Emmanuel Macron, statement on the withdrawal of the United States from the Paris climate agreement, June 1, 2017.

6. We can't have the inmates running the prison.
Robert McNair, owner of the Houston Texans football team, describing players protesting the national anthem, as quoted in ESPN The Magazine, October 27, 2017.

7. Yes.
Elizabeth Warren, responding to Jake Tapper's question on whether the 2016 Democratic primaries were rigged in favor of Hillary Clinton, in an interview on CNN's The Lead, November 2, 2017.

8. And the Academy Award ... for Best Picture ... La La Land.
Warren Beatty and Faye Dunaway, mistakenly reading the wrong winner for Best Picture in an envelope mix-up, Academy Awards ceremony, February 27, 2017.

9. It's a shame the White House has become an adult day care center.
Bob Corker, Republican senator from Tennessee, in a tweet, October 8, 2017.

10. There is too much money in the world.
Lawrence Luhring, art dealer, reacting to the sale of a painting possibly by Leonardo da Vinci for over $450 million, as quoted in The New York Times, November 16, 2017.

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 2016
1. I could stand in the middle of Fifth Avenue and shoot somebody, and I wouldn't lose any voters.
Speech at campaign rally, Sioux Center, Iowa, January 23, 2016.
Donald Trump

2. When they go low, we go high.
Michelle Obama, commencement speech at Jackson State University, Jackson, Mississippi, April 23, 2016.

3. You could put half of Trump's supporters into what I call the basket of deplorables.
Remarks at a fundraiser, New York, September 9, 2016.
Hillary Clinton

4. And love is love is love is love is love is love is love is love cannot be killed or swept aside.
Lin-Manuel Miranda, poem about Orlando massacre read at Tony Awards ceremony, New York, June 12, 2016.

5. (In politics) you need both a public and a private position.
Speech to National Multi-Housing Council released by WikiLeaks, October 7, 2016.
Hillary Clinton

6. I alone can fix it.
Speech at Republican National Convention, Cleveland, July 21, 2016.
Donald Trump

7. Have you even read the United States Constitution? ... You have sacrificed nothing and no one.
Khizr Khan, addressing Donald Trump in speech at Democratic National Convention, Philadelphia, July 28, 2016.

8. Lucifer in the flesh. ... I have never worked with a more miserable son of a bitch in my life.
Former Republican Speaker of the House John Boehner, describing Ted Cruz during talk at Stanford University, April 27, 2016.

9. His life will never be the one that he dreamed about and worked so hard to achieve. That is a steep price to pay for 20 minutes of action out of his 20 plus years of life.
Dan Turner, letter to judge prior to sentencing of his son, Brock Turner, after Brock's conviction for sexual assault of an unconscious woman, June 6, 2016.

10. I'm not the next Usain Bolt or Michael Phelps. I'm the first Simone Biles.
Olympic gymnast Simone Biles, interview, Rio de Janeiro, August 11, 2016.

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 2015
1. Scientific studies indicate that most global warming in recent decades is due to the great concentration of greenhouse gases released mainly as a result of human activity.
Laudato Sí encyclical letter, June 18, 2015.
Francis I

2. The American people are sick and tired of hearing about your damn emails.
Bernie Sanders to Hillary Clinton, Democratic presidential debate, Las Vegas, October 13, 2015.
Bernie Sanders

3. Everybody thought Hillary Clinton was unbeatable, right? But we put together a Benghazi special committee, a select committee. What are her numbers today?
Congressman Kevin McCarthy, Fox News Network Hannity show, September 29, 2015.

4. Look at that face! Would anyone vote for that?
On fellow Republican presidential candidate Carly Fiorina, quoted in Rolling Stone magazine, September 24, 2015.
Donald Trump

5. He's not a war hero. ... He's a war hero because he was captured. I like people that weren't captured.
Criticizing John McCain, interview at Family Leadership Summit, Ames, Iowa, July 18, 2015.
Donald Trump

6. A lot of people who go into prison go into prison straight, and when they come out, they're gay. So, did something happen while they were in there?
Ben Carson, Republican presidential candidate, on whether homosexuality is a choice, CNN New Day show, March 4, 2015.

7. These men and women ... ask for equal dignity in the eyes of the law. The Constitution grants them that right.
Justice Anthony Kennedy, U.S. Supreme Court opinion on gay marriage in Obergefell v. Hodges, June 26, 2015.

8. What, like with a cloth or something?
Response to a reporter's questions about whether she wiped her server, North Las Vegas, Nevada, August 18, 2015.
Hillary Clinton

9. Three things happen when they (female scientists) are in the lab. You fall in love with them, they fall in love with you and when you criticize them, they cry.
Nobel medicine laureate Tim Hunt, remarks at World Conference of Science Journalists, Seoul, South Korea, quoted in The Guardian, June 10, 2015.

10. He's, of course, one of the real leaders on this team and he earns it and he earns it with respect from all of his teammates and that's the kind of thing that inspires a football team.
Dallas Cowboys owner Jerry Jones on controversial player Greg Hardy, remarks to reporters, East Rutherford, New Jersey, October 25, 2015.

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 2014
1. I can't breathe!
Videotaped exclamation while being held by a policeman in New York, July 17, 2014.
Eric Garner

2. Time for some traffic problems in Fort Lee.
Email to David Wildstein quoted in The New York Times, January 9, 2014.
Bridget Anne Kelly

3. Hands up! Don't shoot!
Chant of demonstrators protesting the shooting death of Michael Brown, Ferguson, Missouri, August 2014.

4. Mr. Commissioner, we found out by one phone call. You guys have a whole legal department. Can you explain that?
Questioning NFL Commissioner Roger Goodell on why the NFL had not been able to view video of the Ray Rice incident, at a news conference on September 19, 2014.
Adam Glyn

5. It bothers me a lot that you want to broadcast that you're associating with black people.
In a remark to V. Stiviano on an audio recording quoted in Los Angeles Times, April 27, 2014.
Donald Sterling

6. We came out of the White House not only dead broke, but in debt.
ABC News interview, June 9, 2014.
Hillary Clinton

7. I grew up castrating hogs on an Iowa farm, so when I come to Washington, I'll know how to cut pork.
Iowa Senatorial candidate Joni Ernst, campaign advertisement quoted in National Journal, March 25, 2014.
Joni Ernst

8. I would call attention to the parallels of fascist Nazi (Germany's) war on its 'one percent,' namely its Jews, to the progressive war on the American one percent, namely the 'rich.' ... I perceive a rising tide of hatred of the successful one percent.
Venture capitalist Tom Perkins, letter to the editor, Wall Street Journal, January 24, 2014.
Tom Perkins

9. We have always conducted our relationship privately, and we hope that as we consciously uncouple and coparent, we will be able to continue in the same manner.
Gwyneth Paltrow and Chris Martin, statement on Paltrow's website announcing their separation, March 25, 2014.
Gwyneth Paltrow

10.(a) Isn't it a bitch? I mean, ... this vice president thing?
Response to a student body vice president at Harvard College, Oct. 2, 2014.
Joe Biden

10.(b) Great nations need organizing principles, and Don't do stupid stuff is not an organizing principle.
Atlantic Online interview, August 10, 2014.
Hillary Clinton

10.(c) Every time I get an opponent - I mean, every time I get a chance - I'm home.
Responding to questioning about whether he actually resides in Kansas, KCMO radio interview, July 3, 2014.
Pat Roberts

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 2013
1. With respect to the pledge I made that if you like your plan you can keep it ... the way I put that forward unequivocally ended up not being accurate.
Named the 2013 Politifact Lie of the Year. From a News Conference on November 14, 2013.
Barack Obama

2. This is our fucking city. And nobody is going to dictate our freedom.
Remarks to Fenway Park crowd after memorial service for Boston Marathon bombing victims on April 20, 2013.
David Ortiz

3. We cannot insist only on issues related to abortion, gay marriage and the use of contraceptive methods. It is not necessary to talk about these issues all the time.
Interview published September 19, 2013.
Francis I

4. So let us wage a glorious struggle against illiteracy, poverty and terrorism, let us pick up our books and our pens, they are the most powerful weapons.
United Nations General Assembly on July 12, 2013.
Malala Yousafzai

5. I responded in what I thought was the most truthful or least untruthful manner, by saying, No.
Describing his Senate committee hearing testimony denying the NSA collects data on Americans on June 8, 2013.
James Clapper

6. We've got to stop being the stupid party. It's time for a new Republican Party that talks like adults.
Republican National Committee on January 24, 2013.
Bobby Jindal

7. Yes, I have smoked crack cocaine. Have I tried it? Um, probably in one of my drunken stupors.
Remarks to reporters on November 5, 2013.
Rob Ford

8. The only thing that stops a bad guy with a gun is a good guy with a gun.
News briefing on December 21, 2012.
Wayne LaPierre

9. I don't want to live in a world where there's no privacy and therefore no room for intellectual exploration and creativity.
Interview published June 9, 2013.
Edward Snowden

10. Lean In.
Title of book published in 2013.
Sheryl Sandberg

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 2012
1. There are 47 percent of the people who will vote for the president no matter what ... who are dependent upon government, who believe that they are victims. ... These are people who pay no income tax. ... and so my job is not to worry about those people. I'll never convince them that they should take personal responsibility and care for their lives.
Private fundraiser in Boca Raton, Florida on May 17, 2012.
Mitt Romney

2. We took a concerted effort to go out and find women who had backgrounds that could be qualified to become members of our cabinet [in Massachusetts]. I went to a number of women's groups and said, Can you help us find folks? and they brought us whole binders full of women.
Second presidential debate in Hempstead, New York on October 16, 2012.
Mitt Romney

3. If you were successful, somebody along the line gave you some help. There was a great teacher somewhere in your life. Somebody helped to create this unbelievable American system that we have that allowed you to thrive. Somebody invested in roads and bridges. If you've got a business - you didn't build that.
Campaign appearance in Roanoke, Virginia on July 13, 2012.
Barack Obama

4. Please proceed, Governor.
Second presidential debate in Hempstead, New York on October 16, 2012.
Barack Obama

5. You mentioned the Navy, for example, and that we have fewer ships than we did in 1916. Well, Governor, we also have fewer horses and bayonets because the nature of our military has changed. We have these things called aircraft carriers where planes land on them. We have these ships that go underwater, nuclear submarines.
Third presidential debate in Boca Raton, Florida on October 22, 2012.
Barack Obama

6. If it's a legitimate rape, the female body has ways to try to shut that whole thing down.
KTVI-TV interview on August 19, 2012.
Todd Akin

7. You hit a reset button for the fall campaign; everything changes. It's almost like an Etch A Sketch. You can kind of shake it up and we start all over again.
CNN interview on March 21, 2012.
Eric Fehrnstrom

8. I'm an honorary consul general, so I have inviolability.
Telephone call to a 911 dispatcher regarding media crews at her home concerning the David Petraeus' affair on November 11, 2012.
Jill Kelley

9. Oppan Gangnam style.
Gangnam Style (song).
PSY

10.(a) Under current law, on January 1st, 2013, there is going to be a massive fiscal cliff of large spending cuts and tax increases.
House Committee on Financial Services on February 29, 2012.
Ben Bernanke

10.(b) I care more about my country than I do about a 20-year-old pledge.
WMAZ-TV television interview on November 21, 2012.
Saxby Chambliss

10.(c) I have a job to do. ... If you think right now I give a damn about presidential politics, then you don't know me.
Fox News interview about Hurricane Sandy on October 30, 2012.
Chris Christie

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 2011
1. We are the 99 percent.
Occupy Wall Street slogan.
Occupy

2. There is nobody in this country who got rich on his own. Nobody. You built a factory out there - good for you! But I want to be clear. You moved your goods to market on the roads the rest of us paid for. You hired workers the rest of us paid to educate. You were safe in your factory because of police forces and fire forces that the rest of us paid for.
Andover, Massachusetts, U.S.A. in August, 2011.
Elizabeth Warren

3. My friends and I have been coddled long enough by a billionaire-friendly Congress.
Op-ed from the New York Times on Monday, August 15, 2011.
Warren Buffett

4. I believe in evolution and trust scientists on global warming. Call me crazy.
Tweeted August 18, 2011.
Jon Huntsman

5. Oops.
After unsuccessfully attempting to remember the third federal agency in a November 9, 2011 debate.
Rick Perry

6. When they ask me, Who is the president of Ubeki-beki-beki-beki-stan-stan? I'm going to say, You know, I don't know. Do you know?
Christian Broadcasting Network interview on October 7, 2011.
Herman Cain

7. I am on a drug. It's called Charlie Sheen. It's not available because if you try it once, you will die. Your face will melt off and your children will weep over your exploded body.
ABC News interview in February, 2011.
Charlie Sheen

8. Oh wow. Oh wow. Oh wow.
Last words on October 5, 2011 as reported by his sister Mona Simpson in her eulogy.
Steve Jobs

9. I can't say with certitude.
When asked whether a lewd photograph was him on June 1, 2011.
Anthony Weiner

10. Instead of receiving the help that she had hoped for, Mr. Cain instead decided to provide her with his idea of a stimulus package.
Herman Cain's alleged sexual harassment of her client on November 7, 2011.
Gloria Allred

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 2010
1. I'm not a witch.
Opening line to a 30-second television political advertisement.
Christine O'Donnell

2. I'd like my life back.
Regarding the Deepwater Horizon oil spill.
Tony Hayward

3. If you touch my junk, I'm gonna have you arrested.
Addressing a TSA employee at San Diego airport on November 13, 2010.
John Tyner

4. Don't retreat! Reload!
Palin's Facebook and Twitter.
Sarah Palin

5. Chi! Chi! Chi! Le! Le! Le! Los mineros de Chile!
Chile dramatized! The miners of Chile!
Chilean Miners

6. I hope that's not where we're going, but you know, if this Congress keeps going the way it is, people are really looking toward those Second Amendment remedies. They're saying: My goodness, what can we do to turn this country around?
Radio interview in January, 2010.
Sharron Angle

7. We have to pass the (health care) bill so you can find out what is in it.
National Association of Counties on March 9, 2010.
Nancy Pelosi

8. I'm going to take my talents to South Beach.
Spoken during a broadcast dedicated solely to James' basketball team decision on July 8, 2010.
LeBron James

9. You're telling me that the separation of church and state is found in the First Amendment?
Delaware senatorial debate on October 19, 2010.
Christine O'Donnell

10. They should never have put me with that woman. ... She was just a sort of bigoted woman who said she used to be Labour.
Commenting about a voter he met while campaigning for the British general election.
Gordon Brown

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 2009
1. Keep your government hands off my Medicare.
Health care reform town hall meeting in Simpsonville, South Carolina on July 28, 2009.
Anonymous

2. We're going to be in the Hudson.
Responding to air traffic controllers before he landed in the Hudson River on January 15, 2009.
Chesley Sullenberger

3. There's an app for that.
iPhone slogan.
Apple

4. You lie!
Wilson's shouted retort to Obama's address before a joint session of Congress on September 9, 2009.
Joe Wilson

5. The Cambridge police acted stupidly.
News conference on July 22, 2009.
Barack Obama

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!
Interrupting Taylor Swift's acceptance speech at the MTV Video Music Awards on September 13, 2009.
Kanye West

7. Um, you guys said that we, um, did this for the show.
CNN interview about his parents' balloon hoax on October 15, 2009.
Falcon Heene

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's Facebook on August 7, 2009.
Sarah Palin

9. The governor is hiking the Appalachian Trail.
Governor's spokesman regarding Sanford's disappearance on June 22, 2009.
Mark Sanford

10. You give me a water board, Dick Cheney and one hour, and I'll have him confess to the Sharon Tate murders.
CNN interview on May 11, 2009.
Jesse Ventura

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 2008
1. I can see Russia from my house!
Impersonating Alaska Governor Sarah Palin on Saturday Night Live. Broadcast September 13, 2008.
Tina Fey

2. All of them, any of them that have been in front of me over all these years.
Responding to a request by CBS anchor Katie Couric to name the newspapers or magazines she reads. Broadcast October 1, 2008.
Sarah Palin

3. We have sort of become a nation of whiners.
The Washington Times on July 10, 2008.
Phil Gramm

4. It's not based on any particular data point, we just wanted to choose a really large number.
Spokeswoman explaining how the $700 billion number was chosen for the initial bailout. Quoted by forbes.com on September 23, 2008.
Treasury Department

5. The fundamentals of America's economy are strong.
Bloomberg TV on April 17, 2008.
John McCain

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. Quoted September, 2008.
Treasury Department

7. Maybe 100.
Discussing how many years U.S. troops could remain in Iraq on January 3, 2008.
John McCain

8. I'll see you at the debates, bitches.
Responding to a John McCain television campaign ad on August 7, 2008.
Paris Hilton

9. Barack's been talking down to black people. ... I want to cut his nuts off.
Quote overheard on a live microphone before a Fox News interview on July 6, 2008.
Jesse Jackson

10.(a) Cash for trash.
The New York Times on September 22, 2008.
Paul Krugman

10.(b) There are no atheists in foxholes and there are no libertarians in financial crises.
Interview with Bill Maher on HBO's Real Time broadcast September 19, 2008.
Paul Krugman

10.(c) 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.
Spoken the day before Lehman Brothers filed for bankruptcy. The Washington Post on September 14, 2008.
Donald Luskin

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 2007
1. I really am not the kind of guy that sits here and says, Oh gosh, I'm worried about my legacy.
Quote from an interview with CBS' 60 Minutes on January 14, 2007.
George W. Bush

2. In Iran, we don't have homosexuals, like in your country.
Responding to a question about the treatment of gays and lesbians in Iran during a visit to Columbia University in New York City on September 24, 2007.
Mahmoud Ahmadinejad

3. This record is not tainted at all. At all. Period.
Spoken after breaking Hank Aaron's Major League Baseball all-time home-run record with his 756th career homer amid rampant speculation that he has used steroids.
Barry Bonds

4. If you didn't like Darfur, you're going to hate Baghdad.
Warning of the consequences of an early troop withdrawal from Iraq. Quoted August 14, 2007.
David Petraeus

5. This is it. This is where it all ends. End of the road. What a life it was. Some life.
Quote sent to NBC News before killing 32 people in the deadliest school shooting in U.S. history on April 16, 2007.
Seung-Hui Cho

6. I don't think they're piling on because I'm a woman. I think they're piling on because I'm winning.
In response to intensifying criticism for the Democratic presidential nomination on November 2, 2007.
Hillary Clinton

7. The planet is in distress and all of the attention is on Paris Hilton. We have to ask ourselves what is going on here?
In an interview with the British paper The Sun, before adding that he believes in 10 years it will be too late to save the planet. Quoted June 18, 2007.
Al Gore

8. I spent the better part of the past three months enduring criticism that is normally leveled at some kind of genocidal tyrant.
Regarding his acquisition of the Wall Street Journal.
Rupert Murdoch

9. Hello, Condoleezza Rice? You have me to deal with now.
A masked Hamas gunman, joking into the telephone of Palestinian President Mahmoud Abbas after taking control of his government compound on June 15, 2007.
Hamas

10. Why don't you just shut up?
Addressing Hugo Chavez at a summit in Chile after the Venezuelan President called former Spanish Prime Minister Jose Maria Aznar a fascist on November 10, 2007.
Juan Carlos

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 2006
1. I think as far as the adverse impact on the nation around the world, this administration has been the worst in history.
In an interview with the Arkansas Democrat-Gazette.
Jimmy Carter

2. When the president does it, that means that it is not illegal.
In a 1977 interview with David Frost.
Richard Nixon

3. There's an old saying in Tennessee - I know it's in Texas, probably in Tennessee - that says, fool me once, shame on - shame on you. Fool me - you can't get fooled again.
In Nashville, Tennessee.
George W. Bush

4. You're working hard to put food on your family.
In Greater Nashua, New Hampshire.
George W. Bush

5. Brownie, you're doing a heck of a job.
To FEMA director Michael Brown, who resigned 10 days later amid criticism over his handling of the Hurricane Katrina debacle.
George W. Bush

6. I actually did vote for the $87 billion before I voted against it.
On voting for a war appropriations bill for Iraq and Afghanistan.
John Kerry

7. Too many good docs are getting out of the business. Too many OB-GYNs aren't able to practice their love with women all across this country.
In Poplar Bluff, Missouri.
George W. Bush

8. I'm the decider, and I decide what is best. And what's best is for Don Rumsfeld to remain as the secretary of defense.
In Washington, D.C.
George W. Bush

9. They misunderestimated me.
In Bentonville, Arkansas.
George W. Bush

10. I have a message for you. You are not welcome here. You have blood on your hands.
To President George W. Bush, in Crawford, Texas.
Cindy Sheehan

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1. For a successful technology, reality must take precedence over public relations, for nature cannot be fooled.
Commenting on the Challenger disaster.
Richard Feynman

2. Mr. Gorbachev, tear down this wall!
Ronald Reagan, U.S. president, addressing the Soviet leader at the Berlin Wall.
Ronald Reagan

3. I have a dream that my four little children will one day live in a nation where they will not be judged by the color of their skin but by the content of their character.
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