"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."

Jonathan Shapiro, South African Cartoonist

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"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."

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"A playwright lives in an occupied country. And if you can't live that way you don't stay."

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"Many Sunnis, who are still stuck in the Saddam era mindset and believe Iraq belongs to them, are trying to prevent a new country from developing at all."

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"I would never say John Kerry would be a great president. I will say that George Bush has divided us; he has filled this country with hatred."

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"An intelligent and conscientious opposition is a part of loyalty to country."

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"Above all, we shall wage no more unilateral, ill-planned, ill-considered, and ill-prepared invasions of foreign countries that pose no actual threat to our security."

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"Sometimes I have to compromise my views, but I never compromise on issues like the death penalty and the arm trade laws, despite what the readers or letters may say."

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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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"I was very lucky all three newspapers approached me and asked me to draw their cartoons for them."

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"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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"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 try not to change my political point of view from paper to paper."

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