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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.

  • August 17, 2011

    If this guy prints more money between now and the election, I don't know what you all would do to him in Iowa, but we would treat him pretty ugly down in Texas...Printing more money to play politics...is almost treasonous.
    -- Rick Perry on Federal Reserve Chairman Ben S. Bernanke

  • August 16, 2011

    It takes balls to execute an innocent man.
    -- a Texas voter from a focus group commenting on a questionable execution approved by Gov. Rick Perry

  • August 14, 2011

    I'm doing this because they call us criminals.
    -- London looter to photographer

  • August 12, 2011

    I'm not going to eat Barack Obama's dogfood.
    -- Mitt Romney

  • August 11, 2011

    [Texas Governor Rick Perry] is a charismatic figure. I think about him on stage with the other candidates and he'll stand out. He's not a wallflower. But the most interesting question for me is whether the country is ready for somebody who looks and sounds like George W. Bush on steroids.
    -- Dr. Richard Land, former president of the Southern Baptist Convention

  • August 10, 2011

    I walk through the hotel and I walk down the street, and people look at me like I'm f**king insane, like I'm Hitler. One day the light will shine through and one day people will understand everything I ever did.
    -- Kanye West

  • August 09, 2011

    Hard to follow sometimes.
    -- Fox News host Gretchen Carlson on Spongebob Squarepants

  • August 07, 2011

    We're on the fringe right now. We can barely defend ourselves.
    -- Rep. Bobby Schilling, member of the Armed Services Committee, on the U.S. military

  • August 04, 2011

    If you want a bad job, go to Texas. If you want to work at Carl's Jr., our doors are open, and if you want to go to a crumbling school in a failing system, this is the place to come.
    -- Texas Rep. Garnet Coleman

  • July 31, 2011

    This guy isn't a serious Christian. He's a devoted New York Times reader, and he's an extremely well-read guy.
    -- Mark Steyn on Anders Breivik