[PW] Re: ? Top Quotations of 2006 (Quotation Query #636)

[Shari Haber]

Fred-

I ran into this item a couple of days ago while I was looking for some 
"timely topics":

TOP QUOTES OF 2006 (ACCORDING TO THE MAIN STREAM MEDIA)
"I got to party and socialize at an Olympic level."
-U.S. Olympic skier Bode Miller in February after missing out on five 
gold-medal opportunities.

"It's time for us to come together. It's time for us to rebuild New 
Orleans - the one that should be a chocolate New Orleans. This city will 
be a majority African American city. It's the way God wants it to be. 
You can't have New Orleans no other way. It wouldn't be New Orleans."
-Ray Nagin, Jan. 16, on the rebuilding of New Orleans.
"The emperor comes to speak about the issue of jihad, holy war. He said, 
I quote, 'Show me just what Muhammad brought that was new, and there you 
will find things only evil and inhuman, such as his command to spread by 
the sword the faith he preached.'"
-Pope Benedict XVI quoting a Medieval text during a Sept. 12 address.

"This fellow over here with the yellow shirt - Macaca or whatever his 
name is - he's with my opponent. He's following us around everywhere."
-Sen. George Allen in August referring to a 20-year-old University of 
Virginia student of Indian descent, who worked for congressional 
challenger Jim Webb. A Macaca is a monkey.

"You know, education, if you make the most of it, you study hard, 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 during an Oct. 30 address before Pasadena City College 
students at a rally for California gubernatorial candidate Phil 
Angelides.

"The devil (diablo) came here yesterday. He came here talking as if he 
were the owner of the world. In this very spot it smells like sulfur 
still."
-Venezuelan President Hugo Chavez on Sept. 20 talking about President 
Bush before the United Nations.
            http://www.stevespages.com/opinion.html

Shari Haber
MCLS Reference Center
shaber at mcls.org




----- Original Message ----- 
From: "Fred Shapiro" <fred.shapiro at yale.edu>
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Subject: [PW] ? Top Quotations of 2006 (Quotation Query #636)


>
> This is a time-sensitive question with a deadline of Saturday. 
> Reuters is
> asking me for a list of the top quotations of the year 2006, so I 
> would
> welcome suggestions of particularly famous or otherwise notable 
> quotations
> or phrases originating in 2006.  Quotations can relate to world 
> events,
> U.S. politics, entertainment, sports, or any other subject.
>
> Fred Shapiro
>
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