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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 21, 2011

    I dealt with Gaddafi. I rented him a piece of land. He paid me more for one night than the land was worth for two years, and then I didn't let him use the land. That's what we should be doing. I don't want to use the word 'screwed,' but I screwed him.
    -- Donald Trump

  • March 20, 2011

    We are waiting for you and so are the fishes.
    -- sign held by pro-Qaddafi demonstrator in Tripoli

  • March 18, 2011

    It looks like to me if shooting these immigrating feral hogs [from helicopters] works maybe we have found a [solution] to our illegal immigration problem.
    -- Kansas State Rep. Virgil Peck
    I was just speaking like a southeast Kansas person.
    -- Peck, defending his remarks

  • March 17, 2011

    Part of the beauty of me is that I'm very rich.
    -- Donald Trump

  • March 15, 2011

    This has to be a tough call for the environmentalists around the world. They're scrambling now to blame this on global warming...Much of the damage seems to have happened in that part of Japan most heavily involved in manufacturing cars. So do environmentalists cheer or do they pretend to be saddened by this? It's a legitimate question.
    -- Rush Limbaugh

  • March 12, 2011

    What I love about New Hampshire and what we have in common is our extreme love of liberty. You're the state where the shot was heard around the world in Lexington and Concord.
    -- Michele Bachmann

  • March 11, 2011

    There's no question at times of my life, partially driven by how passionately I felt about this country, that I worked far too hard and things happened in my life that were not appropriate.
    -- Newt Gingrich, on his multiple affairs and marriages

  • March 10, 2011

    Frankly, my toilets don't work in my house, and I blame you and people like you who want to tell me what I can install in my house...I've been waiting 20 years to talk about how bad these toilets are...I can't buy a toilet that works.
    -- Sen. Rand Paul complaining to Dept. of Energy's Kathleen Hogan about regulation of consumer items, at a senate committee hearing
    I can help you find a toilet that works.
    -- Hogan
    I'm sorry about your toilet.
    -- committee chairman Jeff Bingaman

  • March 09, 2011

    Flying a little bigger plane than normal. You gonna launch some attacks in Libya or something?
    -- General David Petraeus to Defense Secretary Robert Gates, at the airport in Kabul
    Heh-heh, yeah. Exactly.
    -- Secretary Gates

  • March 08, 2011

    Freedom of expression is the right of every natural person, even if a person chooses to behave irrationally to express his or her insanity.
    -- from Muammar Gaddafi's The Green Book