Conservative conspiracy theorist Glenn Beck announced Wednesday that he's leaving his Fox News show in favor of a different arrangement that could see him work behind the scenes at Fox or attempt to launch his own cable channel.

But he doesn't leave the Republican leaning network with the most sparkling of records: in the last year, his viewership has declined by a third and over 300 advertisers fled in the face of a massive and sustained boycott.

Despite that, Beck's audience was frequently more than all his competitors' combined, topping out in the millions with every broadcast. But numbers or none, "later this year" it's all coming to an end.

Here's just a handful in the litany of quotes that some would say were Beck's craziest. A reader poll with open nominations is below.
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10. "God is giving a plan I think to me that is not really a plan. The problem is that I think the plan that the Lord would have us follow is hard for people to understand. Because of my track record with you who have been here for a long time. Because of my track record with you, I beg of you to help me get this message out, and I beg of you to pray for clarity on my part."
-- April 20, 2010

9. "I don't think we came from monkeys. I think that's ridiculous. I haven't seen a half-monkey, half-person yet."
-- May 18, 2010

8. "I know the progressives are using progressive tactics. They're not using Nazi tactics. The real answer is the Nazis were using early American progressive tactics. And that's not my opinion, that's historic fact."
-- Jan. 20, 2011