Yale Book of Quotations Top 10 Quotes [2015]
* (1) 'Scientific studies indicate that most global warming in recent decades is due to the great concentration of greenhouse gases … released mainly as a result of human activity.' Pope Francis I * (2) 'The American people are sick and tired of hearing about your damn emails.' - Bernie Sanders to Hillary Clinton during a Democratic Presidential debate * (3) 'Everybody thought Hillary Clinton was unbeatable, right? But we put together a Benghazi special committee, a select committee. What are her numbers today?' - Congressman Kevin McCarthy * (4) 'Look at that face! Would anyone vote for that?' Donald Trump in an off the record remark about Carly Fiorina * (5) 'He’s not a war hero. … He’s a war hero because he was captured. I like people that weren’t captured.' Donald Trump on Senator John Mccain * (6) 'A lot of people who go into prison go into prison straight, and when they come out, they’re gay. So, did something happen while they were in there?' Dr. Ben Carson on whether homosexuality is a choice * (7) 'These men and women … ask for equal dignity in the eyes of the law. The Constitution grants them that right.' Justice Anthony Kennedy, U.S. Supreme Court opinion on gay marriage in Obergefell v. Hodges * (8) 'What, like with a cloth or something?' Hillary Clinton responding to a reporter's question about whether she wiped her server * (9) 'Three things happen when they (female scientists) are in the lab. You fall in love with them, they fall in love with you and when you criticize them, they cry.' Nobel medicine laureate Tim Hunt, remarks at World Conference of Science Journalists (10) 'He’s, of course, one of the real leaders on this team and he earns it and he earns it with respect from all of his teammates and that’s the kind of thing that inspires a football team.' Jerry Jones on disgraced football player Greg Hardy * Missing: Tim Hunt (9)
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Religious Figure
47.55% (68 of 143 votes)
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Politician
32.34% (65 of 201 votes)
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U.S. Congressman
68.08% (145 of 213 votes)
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U.S. President
36.71% (6231 of 16975 votes)
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36.71% (6231 of 16975 votes)
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Doctor
42.57% (43 of 101 votes)
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U.S. Supreme Court Justice
40.0% (14 of 35 votes)
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First Lady
53.66% (2310 of 4305 votes)
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Sports Executive
50.0% (1 of 2 votes)
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