The Ivy Leaguers at Yale University have compiled a list of the Top 10 Quotes of 2009, and it appears Kanye West and hot-headed South Carolina Congressman Joe Wilson spouted off some of the year’s most buzzworthy phrases.

“It reveals that things are so polarized now,” said Fred Shapiro, editor of the Yale Book of Quotations. “And the anti-government people can be so impassioned that they lose sight of the fact that something like Medicare is purely a creation of government.”

The Top 10 Quotes of 2009, as compiled by the editor of the Yale Book of Quotations:

1. “Keep your government hands off my Medicare.”

Speaker at health care reform town hall meeting in Simpsonville, S.C., commenting 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’s 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 the retort to President Obama’s address before joint session of Congress, Sept. 9, 2009

5. “The Cambridge police acted stupidly.”

President Obama commenting during news conference on Henry Louis Gates Jr.’s arrest in Cambridge, Mass., 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 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 in a CNN Wolf Blitzer interview about his 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 in a posting on her Facebook page, Aug. 7, 2009

9. “The governor is hiking the Appalachian Trail.”

Spokesman for Mark Sanford of South Carolina in a statement about the governor’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 on CNN Larry King Live interview, May 11, 2009