Pat Oliphant Quotes

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• 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…
• An outsider's point of view is always handy.
• I can always see what I've done wrong. I'm always learning. I'm the perennial student.
• 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…
• 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…
• Even if you go to Australia today, it's very much like visiting a state you haven't been to.
• 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.
• I see myself as an artist who happens to do cartoons.
• I've always looked upon politics as a very boring thing. Politics never interested me as much as the people involved in it.
• I've been in Washington ever since 1981, trying to get out!
• 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…
• 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…
• 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…
• 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…
• There were dragons to slay in the old days. Nixon was a good dragon.
• We're all idealistic when young.
• 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…

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