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Jonathan Shapiro

"On one occasion in 1987 the security police came looking for me because of a drawing that I'd published."

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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."

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"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."

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

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"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."

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

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

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

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"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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"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."
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"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."
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"I eventually saw the satirical nature of caricaturing individuals."
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"Even people that I agree with can do something that would be a target for a bit of humor."
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