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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.

  • July 16, 2012

    "With regard to any foreign investments, I understand, and you understand of course, that my investments have been held by a blind trust, have been managed by a trustee. I don't manage them. I don't even know where they are."
    -- Mitt Romney, campaigning against Barack Obama in 2012

    "The blind trust is an age-old ruse."
    -- Mitt Romney, campaigning against Ted Kennedy in 1994

  • July 14, 2012

    "The rigidity of those pledges is something I don't like. The circumstances change and you can't be wedded to some formula by Grover Norquist. It's -- who the hell is Grover Norquist, anyway?"
    -- President George H.W. Bush

  • July 13, 2012

    "Is there a V.I.P. entrance? We are V.I.P."
    -- guest at a Romney event in the Hamptons

    "Tell them who's on your yacht this weekend! Tell him!"
    -- Carol Simmons, a guest at a Romney Hamptons fundraiser

    "Obama's a socialist."
    -- Ted Conklin, speaking from his gold Mercedes outside a Romney Hamptons fundraiser

    "I don't think the common person is getting it. Nobody understands why Obama is hurting them."
    -- guest at a Romney Hamptons fundraiser, speaking from her Range Rover

  • July 12, 2012

    "We've got the message. But my college kid, the babysitters, the nails ladies -- everybody who's got the right to vote -- they don't understand what's going on. I just feel like if you're lower income -- one, you're not as educated, two, they don't get how it works."
    -- guest at a Romney Hamptons fundraiser

  • July 11, 2012

    "We would bring the prisoner and...start beating him. He would scream 'for God's sake,' and we would say OK, bring the 'for God's sake' stick. He would scream 'for my mother, please' or 'for [the prophet] Mohammed.' And we would bring the 'my mother' stick and the "for Mohammed' stick. Every stick had a name."
    -- former Syrian officer, on torturing prisoners in a Damascus detention facility

  • July 10, 2012

    "Mitt Romney has to win for the sake of the very idea of America. Mitt Romney has to win for liberty and freedom."
    -- RNC chairman Reince Priebus

  • July 08, 2012

    "This is what global warming looks like at the regional or personal level. The extra heat increases the odds of worse heat waves, droughts, storms and wildfire. This is certainly what I and many other climate scientists have been warning about."
    -- Jonathan Overpeck, UAz professor of geoscience and atmospheric science

    "We're having some hot weather. Get over it."
    -- George Will

  • July 06, 2012

    "The U.S. and the Zionist regime are the prime sources of tyranny and gloom in the current age."
    -- Ali Larijani, speaker of the Iranian parliament

  • July 05, 2012

    "People now don't die from prostate cancer, breast cancer and some of the other things."
    -- NY GOP congressional candidate Chris Collins, in explaining why the ACA should be repealed

  • July 03, 2012

    "[President Obama] does not want you to have the self-esteem of getting up and earning, and having that title of American. He'd rather you be his slave."
    -- Rep. Allen West