[PW] ? Notable Quotations of 2007 (Quotation Query #642)

[Fred Shapiro]

In order to help me respond to media inquries, I would welcome any 
suggestions of what are the most notable quotations of 2007.  Because of a 
particular deadline pressure, responses by Sunday night would be 
particularly useful, although responses after that will also be very 
welcome.

I am not necessarily looking for the most eloquent or admirable 
quotations, in fact nowadays most of the more noteworthy quotations seem 
to be unadmirable, even downright disgusting (think Rush Limbaugh on 
Michael J. Fox).

As a spur to thinking on this topic, below is the list I made up of most 
notable quotations of 2006:

"America is addicted to oil."
-George W. Bush, State of the Union Address, Jan. 31, 2006

"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."
-George W. Bush, Remarks to press, Apr. 17, 2006

"I take full responsibility for the federal government's response [to 
Hurricane Katrina]."
-George W. Bush, Remarks at Warren Easton High School, New Orleans, La., 
Aug. 29, 2006

"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 joke is not on Kazakhstan.  I think the joke is on people who can 
believe that the Kazakhstan that I describe can exist."
-Sacha Baron Cohen, Quoted in Chicago Tribune, Nov. 16, 2006

"The greatest thing about this man [George W. Bush] is he's steady.  You 
know where he stands. He believes the same thing Wednesday that he 
believed on Monday, no matter what happened Tuesday."
-Stephen Colbert, Remarks at White House Correspondents' Association 
Dinner, Washington, D.C., Apr. 29, 2006

"These broads [widows of World Trade Center victims] are millionaires, 
lionized on TV and in articles about them, reveling in their status as 
celebrities and stalked by grief-arrazies. I have never seen people 
enjoying their husbands' death so much."
-Ann Coulter, Godless: The Church of Liberalism (2006)

"If you ain't first, you're last."
-Will Ferrell, playing Ricky Bobby, Talladega Nights: The Ballad of Ricky 
Bobby (motion picture) (2006)

"We lied morning, noon and night [about the economy in order to win the 
election]."
-Ferenc Gyurcsany, Prime Minister of Hungary, Quoted in Independent 
(London), Sept. 20, 2006

"When I was a kid I had no idea I lived in a mansion. Then I went to a 
friend's house and I was like - 'Oh.' "
-Paris Hilton, Quoted in Times (London), Apr. 26, 2006

"The situation in Iraq is grave and deteriorating."
-Iraq Study Group Report (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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