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TWO DECADES OF WTF
Welcome to the world's largest and most up-to-date collection of insane, tragic, misguided, dishonest, inexplicable, and darkly hilarious comments by public figures. This is where reality comes when it wants its mind blown.
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April 27, 2013
"We won't survive another 1,000 years without escaping our fragile planet."
-- Stephen Hawking -
April 25, 2013
"He's by far the most qualified man, but no. We've had enough Bushes."
-- Barbara Bush, asked about Jeb seeking the presidency -
April 22, 2013
"I go into the office in the morning, I sue Barack Obama, and then I go home."
-- Texas State Attorney General Greg Abbott, describing his job -
April 21, 2013
"Who wouldn't use torture on this punk to save more lives?"
-- NY state Sen. Greg Ball, on Dzhokhar Tsarnaev -
April 20, 2013
"The global warming scientists are just Democrats, folks. They're all part of an agenda."
-- Rush Limbaugh -
April 19, 2013
"Guns, gays and immigration -- it's too much. I can be with you on one or two of them, but not all three."
-- an unnamed senator who voted against the gun control bill, to the White House -
April 18, 2013
"We should declare that he who is not with us is against us. We must secure Afghanistan."
-- British Ambassador John MacNeill, 1839, prior to Britain's first disastrous occupation of Afghanistan -
April 17, 2013
"Some of the speculation that has come out is that yes, it was a foreign national and, speculating here, that it was potentially a person on a student visa. If that's the case, then we need to take a look at the big picture."
-- Rep. Steve King, opponent of immigration reform, on the Boston bombings -
April 16, 2013
"I'm comfortable with what I did."
-- George W. Bush, on the Iraq War, April 14, 2013
"He's been pretty immune to what people say."
-- Jim Francis, Bush fundraiser
"His conscience is clear."
-- Joe O'Neill, Bush childhood friend -
April 15, 2013
"Our campaign bumper sticker: If babies had guns, they wouldn't be aborted."
-- Rep. Steve Stockman