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