Ted Rall Quotes

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• Close friends love you for who you are; not what they want you to be.
• Over time, however, the endless war in Iraq began to play a role in natural selection. Only idiots signed up; only idiots died. Back home,…
• Money stress is what used to remind me of my Dad most.
• Do our government's poorly paid contract killers deserve our 'support' for blindly following orders?
• The word 'hero' has been bandied about a lot to refer to anyone killed in Afghanistan or Iraq. But anyone who voluntarily goes to Afghanistan…
• Saddam Hussein, influenced by fascism, ordered the deaths of tens of thousands of people, fought two disastrous wars, turned his nation into an international pariah…
• Anyone should be able to read comics.
• Imagine foreign troops sitting idly, laughing as hooligans trashed the Smithsonian, stole the gold from Fort Knox and burned down the Department of the Interior.…
• Conservative humor is frankly harder than liberal humor. You get points for just being liberal. You can get more points if you make fun of…
• When you do a cartoon based on news headlines, you do it based on incomplete information.
• Anyway, I tried liking Jimmy Corrigan but I couldn't.
• At this point, American workers are pretty respectful of the bosses they loathe.
• Comics are too big. You can't say any kind or genre of comics is better than another. You can say so subjectively. But to say…
• Even though I'm a leftist. I think the left eats its own.
• I don't think anyone has written a great graphic novel.
• I never consciously do any work directly influenced from any movie, unless I'm doing a parody.
• I think jazz is good, but I don't enjoy it. It's not for me.
• I'm a better editorial cartoonist by default because so many editorial cartoonists out there are so awful.
• I'm a better polemicist in prose.
• If I had to rank my skills, I have a long way to go before I can write a good graphic novel.

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