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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.

  • March 05, 2013

    "These devastating across-the-board cuts first proposed by the president will affect the lives of so many hard-working Americans."
    -- House Republican Conference Chair Cathy McMorris Rodgers

    "Will the economy be adversely affected by a 2.4 percent reduction in government spending? I think not...This is a quite modest reduction. We ought to be doing a lot more than this."
    -- Senate Minority Leaders Mitch McConnell

    "I don't know whether it's going to hurt the economy or not."
    -- House Speaker John Boehner

  • March 04, 2013

    "He wants Obama to do one thing -- call him. He said, 'If you can, Dennis. I don't want to do war.' He said that to me."
    -- Dennis Rodman on Kim Jong Un

    "There is nobody at the CIA who can tell you more personally about Kim Jong Un than Dennis Rodman, and that in itself is scary."
    -- ABC News military analyst Col. Steve Ganyard

  • March 02, 2013

    "What Justice Scalia said, to me, was, 'The 15th Amendment of the Constitution ain't got no concerns for me because I'm white and proud.'"
    -- Rep. Jim Clyburn

  • February 28, 2013

    "Somewhere in Moscow tonight, Vladimir Putin saw that Bob Woodward was sent a threatening message from the White House...and he smiled."
    -- Dana Perino

  • February 25, 2013

    "None of the things [Obama is] saying are true...People know that if bad things occur, it's because the president wants them to occur. The president is the president. He's in charge of the government."
    -- Rep. Tom Price, chairman of the House Budget Committee, on the sequester

  • February 22, 2013

    "There were fewer declared Republicans in the faculty when we were there than Communists! There was one Republican. But there were twelve who would say they were Marxists who believed in the Communists overthrowing the United States government."
    -- Sen. Ted Cruz on Harvard Law School, which he attended 1992-1995

  • February 21, 2013

    "President Obama wants to raise your taxes so he can pay people $1.2 million to play World of Warcraft."
    -- Eric Cantor tweet

  • February 19, 2013

    "When a physician removes a child from a woman, that is the largest organ in a body. That's a big thing. That's a big surgery. You don't have any other organs in your body that are bigger than that."
    -- Alabama state Rep. Mary Sue McClurkin, supporting legislation that would impose restrictions on abortion clinics

  • February 18, 2013

    "I'm asking you, do you care whether four Americans died?"
    -- Sen. John McCain to David Gregory on Meet the Press, re: Benghazi

  • February 15, 2013

    "They held her up as a victim. What was she the victim of? Rashes on the bottom of her feet?"
    -- Fox News host Bill Hemmer, mocking Desiline Victor, the 102-year-old woman who was applauded at the State of the Union for making two trips and waiting for three hours in order to vote