A Yale University librarian and lecturer in legal research at Yale Law School, has released his fourth annual list of "The Yale Book of Quotations," in which the year's most memorable quips are collected and ranked. Fred Shapiro says this is the top quote for 2009: "Keep your government hands off my Medicare," which was said by a citizen speaking at a town hall meeting in South Carolina in July. Shapiro says he choose quotes that are famous, important or revealing of the spirit of the times and will include them in the next edition of "The Yale Book of Quotations," which was originally published in 2006. The quotes aren't all eloquent and they're not necessarily admirable, but they are all memorable. The top 10 most memorable quotes of 2009:

1. "Keep your government hands off my Medicare." Speaker at health care reform town hall meeting in Simpsonville, South Carolina, commenting on the government-created Medicare program, quoted by The Washington Post on July 28.
2. "We're going to be in the Hudson." Captain Chesley "Sully" Sullenberger, responding to air traffic controllers asking on which runway he preferred to land US Airways Flight 1549 on January 15 before he landed in the Hudson River.
3. "There's an app for that." Apple's advertising slogan for the iPhone.
4. "You lie!" Wilson's shouted retort to President Barack Obama's address before a joint session of Congress on September 9.
5. "The Cambridge police acted stupidly." Obama, commenting on a white police officer's arrest of black scholar Henry Louis Gates Jr. at his home in Cambridge, Massachusetts, at a news conference July 22.
6. "I'm going to let you finish, but Beyonce had one of the best videos of all time! One of the best videos of all time!" Kanye West, interrupting Taylor Swift's acceptance speech at the MTV Video Music Awards on September 13.
7. "Um, you guys said that we, um, did this for the show." Falcon Heene, during an interview on CNN about his parents' balloon hoax on October 15.
8. "The America I know and love is not one in which my parents or my baby with Down Syndrome will have to stand in front of Obama's 'death panel.'" Former Alaska Gov. Sarah Palin, posting on her Facebook page on August 7.
9. "The governor is hiking the Appalachian Trail." Spokesman for South Carolina Gov. Mark Sanford regarding Sanford's disappearance on June 22.
10. "You give me a water board, Dick Cheney and one hour, and I'll have him confess to the Sharon Tate murders." Jesse Ventura, during a CNN interview May 11.