Famous words of year 2010

Famous Quotes 2010

As the year 2010 draws to a close , we take a look at the quotes that made it to the headlines this year. From A.Raja's Freudian slip to Kalmadi's faux pas, there was enough to tickle one's funny bone. So here goes the list of famous quotes.

Barrack Obama on rumors he was not born in US:

I can't spend all my time with my birth certificate plastered on my forehead.

(Obama, was born in Hawaii to an American mother and Kenyan father)

Sarah Palin on being asked how she would handle the current hostilities between the two Koreas, at an interview on Glenn Beck's radio show:

Obviously, We've got to stand with our North Korean allies

Earlier this year Palin coined the word 'refudiate'.

Prince William on why he chose his mother's ring when he proposed to Kate Middleton:

It's my mother's engagement ring so I thought it was quite nice because obviously she's not going to be around to share any of the fun and excitement of it all - this was my way of keeping her close to it all.

Italian Premier Silvio Berlusconi at a youth wing convention of his party:

Women are lining up to marry me, because I'm a nice guy, because I'm loaded, because I know how to deal with women.

(This year, a new phrase called "bunga bunga" was coined to to describe the Italian Premier's alleged sex romps)

After his clean sweep in the Bihar elections, Nitish Kumar said

Bihar has chosen to end its association with caste politics to make a new beginning - a ''nayi kahani."

Nicholas Sarkozy on allegations of illegal campaign financing stemming from meals at estate of Liliane Bettencourt, heir to the L'Oréal fortune:

Can you imagine? I arrive in front of other guests, and I leave with cash? This is slander.

Aung San Suu Kyi on her freedom from house arrest by the military government for dissident work:

Peace as a goal is an ideal which will not be contested by any government or nation, not even the most belligerent.

Lalu Yadav while addressing a rally in which he dared Nitish Kumar to contest against his wife:

Rabri Devi kewal nari nahin hain chingari hain (Rabri Devi is not just a woman, she is a spark of fire)

Rabri Devi went on to lose both the seats she contested for.

A.Raja while addressing the press after his resignation over the spectrum scam made the ultimate Freudian slip when he said

"I did much to the nation, to the people, to my party and to the country" ,he perhaps intended to say , he did much for the country.

David Cameron on elections forecast to leave a hung parliament:

I believe it is already clear that the Labour government has lost its mandate to govern our country.

Obama in his address to the Indian Parliament talked about U.S-India partnership and said..

"India is not simply emerging; India has already emerged."

US Vice President Joe Biden dropped the F-bomb:

The US Vice President dropped the F-Bomb on Live TV while congratulating President Barack Obama on the health insurance reform bill.

Home Minister P.Chidambaram invited controversy by blaming migrants for increasing crime in the national capital.He said,

"Crime takes place because Delhi attracts a large number of migrants"

He then retracted saying that he has been misunderstood. He said,

"I am a migrant myself".

Former UK Prime Minister Gordon Brown on 66-yr-old woman who needled him on immigration policy during a campaign:

She was just a bigoted woman that said she used to be Labour (sic)..I don't know why Sue (an aide) brought her up towards me.

Within a couple of hours, Brown went to her home and asked her for forgiveness. Probably that wasn't enough as Brown went on to lose the UK General elections this year.

Airtel chief Sunil Mittal on Bharti-Zain deal :

I think we have cracked the code in Nigeria.

With this acquisition, Bharti Airtel will be transformed into a truly global telecom company with operations across 18 countries fulfilling our vision of building a world-class multinational.

Ratan Tata, chairman of India's Tata Group, on bribe for entry into aviation sector :

I just want to go to bed at night... knowing that I haven't got the airline by paying for it. And I can tell you I would have been feeling tremendously shameful had we got the airline and we had paid for it.

Oil Minister Murli Deora on oil price hike :

An increase in price of petrol can be easily accommodated by the user in the country.

If the price of petrol was market driver, the average user of the motorcar would not be spending more than Rs 190 extra every month while the user of the two-wheeler would not spend more than Rs 30-35 every month.

Looking forward to a harmonius relation with Anil:

With legal dispute (over supply of natural gas from RIL to Anil Ambani Group's power plants) behind us, we look forward to a harmonious and constructive relationship with Anil Dhirubhai Ambani Group.

The end of the non-compete agreement had opened up unbounded opportunities in the power sector, which would be a growth engine for Reliance Industries.

Sunil Bharti Mittal on Zain's Africa assets acquisition :

I think we have cracked the code in Nigeria. I cannot obviously detail it to you but Manoj Kohli and I believe we have cracked the code.

Bharti's biggest acquisition is set to take the company into the next orbit. There are three clear targets for Bharti as it steps into Africa. It is looking to achieve five billion dollars in revenue from Africa, two billion dollars in EBITDA from the continent even as it wants 100 million subscribers from the continent of hope.

Bajaj Auto Chairman Rahul Bajaj on prospects of making small car:

A car at a cost of less than Maruti 800 is not going to work... My son Rajeev may not like to sell a car with EBIDTA less than 20 per cent.

This year, we are going to sell four million two wheeler-three wheelers together. So why should we focus only to sell 20,000 units of a car. It doesn't make sense. Unless we can sell about 200,000 units per year, it will not be feasible.

Wipro chief Azim Premji on $2 billion donation to Indian primary education:

Good education is crucial to build a just, equitable compassionate and sustainable society.

All our efforts including the university, are focused on the unprivileged and disadvantaged sections of their society.

On February 19, Tiger Woods broke his self-imposed silence on the sex scandal that engulfed him last year and told family and friends that he was "deeply sorry" for his irresponsible and selfish behaviour.

I was unfaithful, I had affairs, I cheated. What I did was not acceptable and I am the only person to blame. I brought this shame on myself.

Harbhajan Singh scored back-to-back Test hundreds during the series against New Zealand and that compelled Rahul Dravid to put him in an elite company.

He's batting beautifully, he is the new Garry Sobers.

Former India captain Bishen Singh Bedi took ex-IPL commissioner Lalit Modi for a tough ride.

Lalit Modi is a spoilt brat. Without knowing anything about the game, without knowing it at the grass-root level, look what he was running, a cricket tournament. And above all, during the final at D Y Patil stadium in Mumbai, this bugger was tossing the coin in the presence of Sachin Tendulkar and Mahendra Singh Dhoni. Look at the guts of this person.

We don't know who Suresh Kalmadi, CWG Organising Committee Chief, was referring to after the opening ceremony when he said...

Yes, Prince Diana was there.

Lalit Bhanot, Former General Secretary of the CWG Organising Committee, irked the entire nation while trying to defend the hygiene conditions of the Games village.

These rooms are clean to both you and us. Foreigners want certain standards in hygiene and cleanliness which may differ from our perception.

India's Sports Minister MS Gill compared the Commonwealth Games to a grand and typical Indian wedding.

We have our Punjabi weddings where you keep collecting laddoos (sweets) and flowers till midnight, but early morning somehow you get the garlands and laddoos and hope the baraat (wedding party) is happy. I am hopeful that we will have a good Commonwealth Games but I am not God. I will look for it on October 15 when the wedding party has left and the girl (bride) has gone too happy. This is my way of looking at it.

SRK said he's a porn star

Shah Rukh Khan recently said, "I always wanted to be a porn star. I am going to work very hard, positively, with clarity to be a porn star. I will take my flag and put it up in America as the biggest porn star of the world."

Salman Khan's comment on 26/11 Mumbai attacks triggered up a controversy. In an interview to a Pakistani channel, Salman said: "Too much hype has been created around the 26/11 attacks because elite people were targeted. Attacks have happened in trains and small towns too, but no one talked about it so much. Everybody took this up because the Taj and Oberoi hotels were involved. The attacks happened because our security failed. Everybody knows that the Pakistani government was not behind it and it was a terrorist attack. Our security had failed. We have had lot of attacks earlier, and all of them were not from Pakistan. They were from within also."

Amitabh Bachchan stirred a controversy when be blamed the editing of the movie Raavan for its disaster at the box office. He tweeted, “Lot of merited film edited out, causing inconsistent performance and narrative, but what presentation!”

Salman Khan openly made fun of noted filmmaker Sanjay Leela Bhansali. During a television awards ceremony, while talking to a hearing impaired girl, he cited the movie Black and said, "Jaake usko milo. Voh tumhare pe picture bana dega, khud khoob kamayega, lekin tumko kuch nahin dega," (Go and meet him, he'll make a film on you. He'll make pots of money but won't pay you a dime).

Not just that Salman went on with his opinion on Guzaarish saying, “Arre, usme toh makhi udd rahi thi, lekin koi machhar bhi nahi gaya dekhne. Arre, koi kutta bhi nahin gaya."

Rajeev Masand calls Akshay Kumar "jackass":

Akshay Kumar invited a lot of criticism when he got snapped with ailing R K Laxman to promote his then upcoming film Khatta Meetha. Condemning Akshay, Rajeev Masand had expressed his opinion on promotional gimmick with this tweet– ‘Need innovative ideas to promote films in competitive times. But Akshay Kumar grinning like a jackass at RK Laxman's hospital bed is a new low'. Calling Akshay Kumar as ‘jackass' didn't go down well with Amitabh Bachchan, who tweeted him back, –‘Rajeev, your fraternity will never pull you up for calling Akshay a 'jackass'. Ever thought if the reverse were to be done... would your fraternity have spared Akshay if he were to address you as one? Never expected this language from you!'

Asha Bhosle's tweet about Mumbai

Legendary playback singer and prominent Mumbaikar Asha Bhosle, who is an avid tweeter, has tweeted her mind which caused a controversy. "Mumbai: Machhar war is in full swing", Asha said on the microblogging site. This was followed by, "'Machhar' Raj", which fetched some pointed queries from her followers. Asha was quick to clarify that she was not referring to MNS chief Raj Thackeray. "I was not referring to Raj Thackeray," she tweeted. She also took a dig at Common Wealth Games. “CW games or people wealth game”, Asha said on the microblogging site.

Abhishek Bachchan and ad-man Prahlad Kakkar got into a verbal brawl when the latter had made a comment that the actor should be in the Guinness Book of World Records for delivering 17 flops. Abhishek hit back. "I love Prahlad Kakkar, he should be a stand-up comic not an ad-filmmaker. Maybe then someone will take him seriously! This coming from a man who makes commercials with his own son," He posted on his Twitter page.