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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.

  • June 15, 2011

    The threshold question: It's not usually asked, but it's in everyone's mind in a presidential election. 'Should we give this person nuclear weapons?' ...Answers itself.
    -- George Will on Sarah Palin

  • June 14, 2011

    The ruling class people like Friedman would rather see this country run by communist Chinese than people like Sarah Palin.
    -- Rush Limbaugh

  • June 12, 2011

    Richard Nixon, if he were alive today, might take bittersweet satisfaction to know that he was not the last smart president to prolong unjustifiably a senseless, unwinnable war, at great cost in human life...He would probably also feel vindicated (and envious) that all the crimes he committed against me -- which forced his resignation facing impeachment -- are now legal.
    -- Daniel Ellsberg

  • June 10, 2011

    We are no longer in the Cold War. This is more like the Blizzard War -- a blizzard of challenges.
    -- CIA Director Leon Panetta

  • June 09, 2011

    If you can find a good or service on the internet, then the federal government probably doesn't need to be doing it.
    -- Tim Pawlenty

  • June 08, 2011

    America is absolutely awash with easily obtainable firearms. You can go down to a gun show at the local convention center and come away with a fully automatic assault rifle without a background check and, most likely, without having to show an identification card. So what are you waiting for?
    -- American-born al-Qaeda spokesman Adam Gadahn, in a video

  • June 07, 2011

    What have you seen so far today, and what are you going to take away from your visit?
    -- the "gotcha question" Sarah Palin has blamed for her widely ridiculed Paul Revere account

  • June 06, 2011

    We are only inches away from ceasing to be a free market economy.
    -- Mitt Romney

  • June 06, 2011

    There are two kinds of people in the world: Those who understand Palin and those who pretend they don't.
    -- Rush Limbaugh

  • June 03, 2011

    He who warned, uh, the British that they weren't going to be taking away our arms uh by ringing those bells and making sure as he's riding his horse through town to send those warning shots and bells that we were going to be secure and we were going to be free, and we were going to be armed.
    -- Sarah Palin, visiting Boston's Old North Church, on Paul Revere