Yale librarian Fred Shapiro released his fourth annual list of the year’s 10 most notable quotations Wednesday.

Topping the list is a remark from a Simpsonville, S.C., town hall meeting about health care reform: “Keep your government hands off my Medicare,” an attendee said of the government-run entitlement program.

Check out the scene blog to read scene’s commentary on Shapiro’s comprehensive list.

Tina Fey took the top spot on the 2008 list from Shapiro, the editor of The Yale Book of Quotations. Fey won out with her rendition of Sarah Palin on Saturday Night Live: “I can see Russia from my house!” Click here to read more about Shapiro’s 2008 list.

The full 2009 list:

  • 1. “Keep your government hands off my Medicare.” Speaker at health care reform town hall meeting in Simpsonville, S.C., Comment on the government-created Medicare program, quoted by Washington Post, July 28, 2009.
  • 2. “We’re going to be in the Hudson.” Captain Chesley “Sully” Sullenberger, response to controllers asking which runway he preferred to land US Airways Flight 1549, Jan. 15, 2009.
  • 3. “There’s an app for that.” Apple’s advertising slogan for iPhone.
  • 4. “You lie!” Congressman Joe Wilson of South Carolina, shouted retort to President Barack Obama’s address before joint session of Congress, Sept. 9, 2009.
  • 5. “The Cambridge police acted stupidly.” Barack Obama, comment on Henry Louis Gates, Jr. arrest in Cambridge, Mass., News conference, July 22, 2009.
  • 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, comments interrupting Taylor Swift’s acceptance speech at MTV Video Music Awards, Sept. 13, 2009.
  • 7. “Um, you guys said that we, um, did this for the show.” Falcon Henne, CNN Wolf Blitzer interview about Henne’s parents’ balloon hoax, Oct. 15, 2009.
  • 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.’ ” Sarah Palin, posting on her Facebook page, Aug. 7, 2009.
  • 9. “The governor is hiking the Appalachian Trail.” Spokesman for Mark Sanford of South Carolina, statement about Sanford’s disappearance, June 22, 2009.
  • 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, CNN Larry King Live interview, May 11, 2009.