President Barack Obama, speaks during the annual 2013 Christmas in Washington presentation at the National Building Museum in Washington, Sunday, Dec. 15, 2013. (AP Photo/Manuel Balce Ceneta)

NEW HAVEN, Conn. (AP) — President Barack Obama’s acknowledgement that his promise that Americans could keep their health insurance plan turned out to be inaccurate topped this year’s list of best quotes, according to a Yale University librarian.

Other notable quotations on Fred Shapiro’s eighth-annual list included Pope Francis’ urging that the Catholic Church reduce emphasizing hot-button issues like abortion, a Republican governor insisting on changes in his party and a Pakistani teenager who was shot by the Taliban calling for a campaign against illiteracy, poverty and terrorism.

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