What’s Your Favorite Quote of 2011? (POLL)

Fred Shapiro, the associate librarian of Yale Law School, has been compiling his favorite yearly quotes for the past six years, and has just released his top list of quotables for 2011. 

Let us know your favorite by taking our poll below the list of quotes. Leave your feedback in the comment section below this post.

Top 21011 Quotes:

  1. “We are the 99 percent.” — slogan of Occupy movement.
  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.” — U.S. Sen. candidate Elizabeth Warren, speaking in Andover, Mass., in August.
  3. “My friends and I have been coddled long enough by a billionaire-friendly Congress.” —Billionaire Warren Buffett, in a New York Times op-ed on Aug. 15.
  4. “I believe in evolution and trust scientists on global warming. Call me crazy.” —Presidential candidate Jon Huntsman in an Aug. 18 tweet.
  5. “Oops.” — Presidential candidate Rick Perry after unsuccessfully attempting to remember the third federal agency he would eliminate during a Nov. 9 debate.
  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?”‘ — Then-presidential candidate Herman Cain in an interview by Christian Broadcasting Network on Oct. 7.
  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.” — Actor Charlie Sheen in a February interview with ABC News.
  8. “Oh wow. Oh wow. Oh wow.” — Apple co-founder Steve Jobs‘ last words on Oct. 5, as reported by his sister Mona Simpson in her eulogy.
  9. “I can’t say with certitude.” — Then-U.S. Rep. Anthony Weiner on June 1 when he was asked whether a lewd photograph was in fact him.
  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.” — Lawyer Gloria Allred on Nov. 7 discussing Herman Cain’s alleged sexual harassment of her client. 

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