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"I see the cartoonist as contributing to the content, being critical, because we do poke holes in some of the dialogue and find new ways of seeing things."
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"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."
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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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"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."
Country
"Even people that I agree with can do something that would be a target for a bit of humor."
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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."
First
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Death
"On one occasion in 1987 the security police came looking for me because of a drawing that I'd published."
Police
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