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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.

  • October 03, 2011

    I think 'Hail to the Chief' needs a little bit fresher sound...I might put some gospel beats in.
    -- Herman Cain

  • September 30, 2011

    The scale of change I am suggesting is so enormous that I couldn't possibly show you as a single leader all I am going to do.
    -- Newt Gingrich introducing his 21st Century Contract With America

  • September 28, 2011

    Is a title worth it? Does a title shackle a person? Are they -- someone like me, maverick, you know, I do go rogue, and I call it like I see it, and I don't mind stirring it up...Is a title and is a campaign too shackling? Does that prohibit me from being out there, out of the box, not allowing handlers to shape me...?
    -- Sarah Palin, on running for president

  • September 28, 2011

    We have a lot of kids graduating college, can't find jobs. That's what happened in Cairo. That's what happened in Madrid. You don't want those kinds of riots here.
    -- NYC Mayor Michael Bloomberg

  • September 27, 2011

    All memoir is prostitution.
    -- Julian Assange after reading the first draft of his own autobiography, publication of which he has condemned

  • September 26, 2011

    I think Americans just don't know sometimes which Mitt Romney they're dealing with. Is it the Mitt Romney that was on the side of against the Second Amendment before he was for the Second Amendment? Was it -- was before he was before the social programs, from the standpoint of he was standing up for Roe v. Wade before he was against Roe v. Wade? He was for Race to the Top, he's for ObamaCare, and now he's against it. I mean, we'll wait until tomorrow and -- and -- and see which Mitt Romney we're really talking to tonight.
    -- Rick Perry

  • September 23, 2011

    I don't know how you would do this, but if you could take Herman Cain and mate him up with Newt Gingrich, I think you would have a couple of really interesting guys to work with.
    -- Rick Perry on which of his fellow-debaters he would choose for a runniing mate

  • September 22, 2011

    By the time I feed my family, I have maybe $400,000 left over to invest.
    -- Rep. John Fleming, a small business owner whose children range in age from 21 to 32, on the travails of a tax increase given his net income of $600,000

  • September 21, 2011

    In the Republican race, in this primary, I think people are still going to be coming and going because there is still time. And I'm still one of those still considering the time factor.
    -- Sarah Palin

  • September 20, 2011

    I have more power than anybody other than the president, in the sense that I can get things changed, quickly. I don't have to go through the legislative process; I don't have to do any of that. I can just bring it to the people and say, 'Look, this has gotta be dealt with.'
    -- Bill O'Reilly