No. 1: 'Keep your government hands off my Medicare.'
( Getty Images photo / August 8, 2009 )
Fred Shapiro, associate librarian and lecturer in legal research at Yale Law School, released his fourth annual list of The Yale Book of Quotations. His top quote: "Keep your government hands off my Medicare," by a speaker at a town hall meeting in South Carolina in July.
"That struck me as embodying the friction and polarization on the role of government," Shapiro said.
The original Yale Book of Quotations was published in 2006. Since then, Shapiro releases an annual list of the top 10 quotes, which he said will be incorporated into the next edition of the book in a few years.
Shapiro picks quotes that are famous, important or revealing of the spirit of the times. The quotes aren't necessarily the most eloquent or admirable.
Pictured, demonstrators at a town hall meeting on health care proposals in Brighton, Colo.
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