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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 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

  • March 07, 2011

    A Jewish conspiracy.
    -- Julian Assange, decrying "smears" from The Guardian and Private Eye magazine
    Sort of Jewish.
    -- Assange, about the Guardian's editor, because his brother-in-law is Jewish
    Forget the Jewish thing.
    -- Assange

  • March 06, 2011

    Brotherly Leader and Guide of the First of September Great Revolution of the Socialist People's Libyan Arab Jamahiriya.
    -- Gaddafi's full official title

  • March 04, 2011

    One thing that I do know is Obama's having grown up in Kenya, his view of the Brits, for example, very different than the average American...his perspective as growing up in Kenya with a Kenyan father is very different than ours because he probably grew up hearing that the British are a bunch of imperialists who persecuted his grandfather.
    -- Mike Huckabee on President Obama, who first visited Kenya in the late 1980s