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"On one occasion in 1987 the security police came looking for me because of a drawing that I'd published."
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"An administration without a police executive is powerless and there were many proofs of this."

"I know when I was here prosecuting homicides in the District of Columbia, one of the most effective units here was the cold case squad, which had on it FBI agents, as well as Metropolitan Police Department homicide detectives working together."

"The way they were writing Christine as this older woman who got married, which she shouldn't have. Obviously got divorced right away. Reached the glass ceiling in the police precinct. So there is a part of her that died because she knows she couldn't go any farther."

"Incidentally, our railroad facilities are under video surveillance by the federal police. However, the federal and state governments will have to determine whether video surveillance shouldn't be significantly expanded to a certain degree."

"A recent police study found that you're much more likely to get shot by a fat cop if you run."

"MAC gave me 55 lipsticks to test. These are the same lipsticks I got caught stealing by the police when I was 15. How ironic."

"I decided that if the police couldn't catch the gangsters, I'd create a fellow who could."

"If the police ever try to pick me up, Michael Jackson told me I can hide out at his house."

"Let me be clear about this. I don't have a drug problem. I have a police problem."

"She's in a situation she tried to, that's what's complicated. She followed orders; she called off the raid. This is a dangerous situation. Somebody in DC police went ahead and started."
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"I was very lucky all three newspapers approached me and asked me to draw their cartoons for them."

"I think the eyes are very revealing and can expose a lot about a persons mood or character."

"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 and in essence that's what its all about."

"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 in that way their noises are just noises."

"We do, and there is a law in the United States - the Torture Convention - that prohibits the United States from deporting an individual to a country where there is a reasonable expectation that he will be subjected to torture - physical, mental or otherwise."

"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, advocate for all sorts of things from social justice to peace."

"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 or a sense of the things one has to be skeptical about."

"Mandela once phoned me out of the blue while he was still president, and at first he played with me a bit."
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