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We're all idealistic when young.
A career is a job that has gone on too long.
An outsider's point of view is always handy.
Cartoons are windows into the human condition.
The best thing for my creative process is a deadline.
I see myself as an artist who happens to do cartoons.
I've been in Washington ever since 1981, trying to get out!
There’s no such thing as perfection, and life is not a race.
The best cartoons have no words at all - just the image pops out.
Because of my grey hair and glasses, people think I'm Phil Donahue.
There were dragons to slay in the old days. Nixon was a good dragon.
The press must speak out and, if the occasion arises, raise bloody hell.
The doorway to success cannot be opened with a key, but rather a combination
I can always see what I've done wrong. I'm always learning. I'm the perennial student.
Even if you go to Australia today, it's very much like visiting a state you haven't been to.
If you're a balanced cartoonist, you're not a cartoonist. You definitely have to have a bias.
Politics, like advertising, is about people selling you things you didn't really want or need.
I'm kind of a nerd. A square. And I'm terrible at telling jokes. I always forget the punch line.
I really do have a self-censorship problem, which isn't the way you should be if you're a cartoonist.
The Opera reminds me of my tax audit. It was in a language I didn’t understand. And it ended in tragedy.
Above average intelligence has always run in my family. Ambition, however, has always walked with a limp.
I don't think being a cynic is necessarily a negative thing. It's a matter of seeing the world with clear and open eyes.
I've always looked upon politics as a very boring thing. Politics never interested me as much as the people involved in it.
Journalism was looked upon as a more noble thing than it is now. I don't know if it carries the same cachet that it did then.
I don't think there's more than half-a-dozen cartoons that I've been really truly happy with in all the time I've been doing it.
Some days you feel like this is really going well. You can tell. Other days, you're just drawing like a farmer and you don't know why.
Ease up on yourselves. Have some compassion for yourself as well as for others. There's no such thing as perfection, and life is not a race.
Correct me if I'm wrong - the gizmo is connected to the flingflang connected to the watzis, watzis connected to the doo-dad connected to the ding dong.
So many cartoonists draw the same year after year. When they find a style, they stick with it. They don't mess with innovation, and they become boring.
I hate changes of administrations, because I have all my villains in place and they are all taken away and replaced with faceless wonders nobody knows.
My cartoons appear in newspapers, which are full of words, but there's something about having it in this little box that confounds people's expectations.
If it were not for the fact that editors have become so timorous in these politically correct times, I would probably have a greater readership than I have.
I'm looking forward to working for the 'Tribune' because any company that can invest in the Chicago Cubs has a view of the future we cannot begin to comprehend.
Political cartoonists get hung up on daily deadlines and the front page. The worst thing you can do is open up the newspaper and ask, 'What's funny about this?'
There has always been quite a strong black and white art tradition in Australia, with quite a large contingent of cartoonists, given the size of the population.
I thought that through the strip, I could vent my spleen and be funny at the same time. But when it comes to humor, there's no substitute for reality and politicians.
I have but one life to give to adventure. " Alexander Eliot -" Life is a fatal adventure. It can only have one end. So why not make it as far-ranging and free as possible.
If you've got short, stubby fingers and wear reading glasses, any relaxation you would normally derive from fly fishing is completely eliminated when you try to tie on a fly.
Terrorism really doesn't strike at physical structures as much as it strikes at ideas, and its main fear is ideas. And cartoonists are particularly effective at distilling ideas.
The fact that we're protected under that Constitution in exercising the right of free speech, it's a wonderful thing. You've got to come from somewhere else to realize how valuable it is.
The problem when you're a cartoonist and you go into the voting booth is that you have your choice of two guys - one would be best for your country, and one would be best for your business.
That really has been my message over the years: 'Hey, we're all in this together, so let's laugh about it a little, please.' It adds perspective to an argument if you know where you're coming from.
One-newspaper towns are not good because all the surviving newspaper does is print money. They make 25 percent on their money every year, and if they go down to 22 percent, they start laying people off.
My biggest influence growing up was Mad magazine, which is a very text-heavy form of visual satire. I didn’t grow up wanting to draw donkeys and elephants with the names of politicians written across them.
To keep doing this job [draw political cartoons] week after week, I think you have to want to change the world, while understanding that you can't. You have to hold both of those contradictory ideas simultaneously.
Good satire is about attacking the powerful, and that tends to be more the purview of the left. Maybe there's something about the conservative mindset that confuses mean-spirited name-calling and insults with actual humor.
Our job is not to amuse our readers. Our mission is to stir them, inform and inflame them. Our task is to continually hold up our government and our leaders to clear-eyed analysis, unaffected by professional spinmeisters and agenda-pushers.
Our basic civil liberties are in jeopardy, but we're going to be spending our time as a society arguing about whether or not schoolchildren should be forced to pay tribute to imaginary invisible beings who live in magical kingdoms in outer space some
Writing is simple. First you have to make sure you have plenty of paper... sharp pencils... typewriter ribbon. Then put your belly up to the desk... roll a sheet of paper into the typewriter... and stare at it until beads of blood appear on your forehead.
I don't think that what I'm doing [political cartooning] is necessarily left versus right. What I'm addressing is top versus bottom. If I'm not spending a lot of time making fun of the more extreme elements of the Green Party, it's because what I do is to critique power.