Stay up to date with the goings-on inside politics, Big Business and public policy through the words of the men and women representing them – oftentimes poorly. Officials Say the Darndest Things is a cheeky Tumblr curated by the staff of ProPublica, an independent, nonprofit journalism organization. This band of do-gooding reporters has some fun with this blog, a simple series of quotations spoken by some of our world’s most popular officials who, much to your amusement, seem to practice foot-in-mouthing regularly.