Jonathan Shapiro Quotes

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• We do, and there is a law in the United States - the Torture Convention - that prohibits the United States from deporting an individual…
• There are certain people within the new government who have a slightly disturbing tendency toward authoritarianism, but there are so many checks and balances that…
• I am anti-Bush. A lot of what he stands for is the antithesis of what I stand for.
• Even people that I agree with can do something that would be a target for a bit of humor.
• Mandela once phoned me out of the blue while he was still president, and at first he played with me a bit.
• I would think a sense of the absurd is more important for a political cartoonist, because that could define things like a sense of hypocrisy…
• I see the cartoonist as contributing to the content, being critical, because we do poke holes in some of the dialogue and find new ways…
• There was a teacher who recognized that I was interested in cartooning and he was great.
• I eventually saw the satirical nature of caricaturing individuals.
• I normally keep a series of draft in a catalogue type of book in which I scribble, sketch and draw ideas.
• Gee, I am a complete Luddite when it comes to computers, I can barely log on!
• I think the eyes are very revealing and can expose a lot about a persons mood or character.
• I was very lucky all three newspapers approached me and asked me to draw their cartoons for them.
• I try not to change my political point of view from paper to paper.
• Sometimes I have to compromise my views, but I never compromise on issues like the death penalty and the arm trade laws, despite what the…
• Certainly in cartooning I'm given huge free rein at the moment.
• It's to be a person who's able to shoot little arrows into sacred cows and knock politicians off their pedestals, to look out for hypocrisy,…
• On one occasion in 1987 the security police came looking for me because of a drawing that I'd published.
• Primarily I'm a social commentator rather than someone who's out to get the belly laugh.
• The cartoons which I enjoy have caused some kind of out rage, but they have got people talking about these issues out in the open…

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