# Top quote of 2009

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Fred Shapiro, associate librarian and lecturer in legal research at Yale Law School, is releasing his fourth annual list of The Yale Book of Quotations. His top quote, by a speaker at a town hall meeting in South Carolina in July:

**Keep your government hands off my Medicare!**

Bwahahahahahahahaha!!!

(Text, but not quote, rephrased from The Canadian Press.)