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For Shapiro, candidates’ verbal gaffes are gems

Staff Reporter
Published Friday, January 18, 2008

The end of Joe Biden’s presidential campaign after the Iowa caucuses was a blow to the Delaware senator’s supporters, staff and — at least in a sense — to Fred Shapiro, author of the “Yale Book of Quotations.”

After all, for Shapiro, who is also a librarian at Yale Law School, Biden’s penchant for controversy made him the perfect source of unforgettable remarks. No surprise, then, that two of what Shapiro recently ranked as the top 10 most memorable quotations of 2007 came straight from Biden’s mouth.

Biden would probably prefer that his campaign had grabbed headlines for...

#1 By (Anonymous) 2:53p.m. on January 18, 2008

Shapiro's top-ten list is always funny. He should do more stuff like that.

#2 By (Anonymous) 9:30p.m. on January 18, 2008

not bad that shapiro is #2 on amazon for quotation collections:

http://www.amazon.com/gp/bestsellers/books/11902/ref=pd_zg_hrsr_b_1_3_last

#3 By (Anonymous) 4:03p.m. on January 19, 2008

not surprising as people who want Bartlett's already have it. and everybody loves a good quote.

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