Archive

Say What? Archive

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.

  • February 07, 2011

    Nobody has yet explained to the American public what they know, and surely they know more than the rest of us know, who it is who will be taking the place of Mubarak. I'm not real enthused about what it is that is being done on a national level from D.C. in regards to understanding all the situation there in Egypt and in these areas that are so volatile right now.
    -- Sarah Palin on Obama's handling of the Egypt crisis

  • February 04, 2011

    Un-Egyptian...The majority of the people out there now are following foreign agendas.
    -- Egyptian Vice President Omar Suleiman on demonstrators

  • February 03, 2011

    I offer my apology for everything that happened yesterday because it's neither logical nor rational. What happened was wrong, a million percent wrong, whether it was deliberate or not deliberate.
    -- Egyptian Prime Minister Ahmed Shafiq

  • February 01, 2011

    Sounds good, because there's a lot of chaos in Cairo, and I can't wait to not get blamed for it -- at least for a month.
    -- Sarah Palin, on Dana Milbank calling for a media hiatus on mentioning her until March

  • January 30, 2011

    To try to upend Paul ryan was just wrong.
    -- Rep. Jason Chaffetz, R-UT, on Rep. Michele Bachmann's rebuttal to the State of the Union address
    I have since learned that the timing of Congresswoman Bachmann's address was not simultaneous to Chairman Ryan's official response. Now understanding the true order of events, I would not have made the same comments to the media.
    -- Chaffetz, walking back his earlier comment

  • January 29, 2011

    if members of Congress wish to carry a weapon in the federal District of Columbia, it should be permissible. Accordingly, we are in the process of drafting a bill that will allow members of Congress to do that.
    -- Rep. Louie Gohmert, R-Texas

  • January 28, 2011

    All I want is one chance at returning anything that happens to me.
    -- Rep. Don Young, R-Alaska, on why he carries a concealed firearm

  • January 27, 2011

    I happen to feel comfortable with it and will continue to do it.
    -- Rep. Jason Chaffetz, R-UT, on carrying a concealed firearm

  • January 26, 2011

    After the elections, I let my guard down. Now I know I need to have [the gun] on me.
    -- Rep. Heath Shuler, D-NC

  • January 25, 2011

    You just never know if I'm packing or not packing.
    -- Rep. Jean Schmidt, R-Ohio, owner of a .380 ACP Bersa semiautomatic handgun, a gift from her husband