List of Top Quotes of 2008

BY THE ASSOCIATED PRESS

The Top 10 quotes of 2008, as compiled by the editor of the Yale Book of Quotations:

1. ``I can see Russia from my house!'' - Comedian Tina Fey, while impersonating Alaska Gov. Sarah Palin on ``Saturday Night Live,'' broadcast Sept. 13

2. ``All of them, any of them that have been in front of me over all these years.'' - Palin, responding to a request by CBS anchor Katie Couric to name the newspapers or magazines she reads, broadcast Oct. 1

3. ``We have sort of become a nation of whiners.'' - former Sen. Phil Gramm, an economic adviser to Sen. John McCain, quoted in The Washington Times, July 10

4. ``It's not based on any particular data point, we just wanted to choose a really large number.'' - a Treasury Department spokeswoman explaining how the $700 billion number was chosen for the initial bailout, quoted on Forbes.com Sept. 23

5. ``The fundamentals of America's economy are strong.'' - McCain, in an interview with Bloomberg TV, April 17

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, September 2008

7. ``Maybe 100.'' - McCain, discussing in a town hall meeting in Derry, N.H., how many years U.S. troops could remain in Iraq, Jan. 3

8. ``I'll see you at the debates, b------.'' - Paris Hilton in a video responding to a McCain television ad, August 2008

9. ``Barack, he's talking down to black people. ... I want to cut his ... off.'' - Rev. Jesse Jackson, overheard over a live microphone before a Fox News interview, July 6

10. (tie) ``Cash for trash.'' - Paul Krugman discussing the financial bailout, New York Times, Sept. 22.

10. (tie) ``There are no atheists in foxholes and there are no libertarians in financial crises.'' - Krugman, in an interview with Bill Maher on HBO's ``Real Time,'' broadcast Sept. 19

10. (tie) ``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.'' - commentator Donald Luskin, the day before Lehman Brothers filed for bankruptcy, The Washington Post, Sept. 14