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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 08, 2011

    We raised the debt ceiling seven times during the Bush Administration...We had debt at 120 percent of the GDP, far higher than this, after World War II and no one went around threatening that we're going to ruin the credit of the United States...
    -- Warren Buffett

  • July 07, 2011

    I often think there should exist a special typographical sign for a smile -- some sort of concave mark, a supine round bracket...
    -- Vladimir Nabokov, imagining the emoticon in 1969

  • July 06, 2011

    At the heart of liberalism, really, is a hatred for God and a belief that government should replace God.
    -- Missouri Rep. Todd Akin, running for the U.S. Senate

  • July 04, 2011

    He hit the brakes, lost control, was ejected and struck his head on the road. He suffered a skull fracture.
    -- New York State Trooper Robert Jureller, on motorcyclist Philip Contos, killed while driving bare-headed in an organized ride protesting helmet laws

  • July 03, 2011

    He did not cause this recession, but he made it worse.
    -- Mitt Romney on Obama, 6/27/11
    I did not say that things are worse.
    -- Romney, when asked about the statement, 6/30/11

  • July 01, 2011

    You will pray for the time when I was only on the air for one hour every day.
    -- Glenn Beck, on the future

  • June 30, 2011

    She can raise enough money to burn a wet mule.
    -- Mississippi Governor Haley Barbour on Sarah Palin

  • June 29, 2011

    I don't think the current minimum wage is necessary because most companies are paying higher than the minimum wage.
    -- Herman Cain

  • June 26, 2011

    There is no such thing as global warming.
    -- Rick Santorum

  • June 24, 2011

    The people on this commission are going to be people who know something about coal, oil, shale oil, natural gas, and they will be people whose businesses or individuals who have been abused by the EPA....like Shell Oil. I'm going to ask the CEO of Shell Oil would he like to be on this commission, and give me some recommendations.
    -- Herman Cain on who he would appoint to a "regulatory reduction commission" which would figure out which EPA regulations should be eliminated