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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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"Every form of government tends to perish by excess of its basic principle."
"Government is a contrivance of human wisdom to provide for human wants. People have the right to expect that these wants will be provided for by this wisdom."
"I don't mind what Congress does, as long as they don't do it in the streets and frighten the horses."
"I am concerned about the whole man. I am concerned about what the people, using their government as an instrument and a tool, can do toward building the whole man, which will mean a better society and a better world."
"The Federal Government should be the last resort, not the first. Ask if a potential program is truly a federal responsibility or whether it can better be handled privately, by voluntary organizations, or by local or state governments."
"Freedom of opinion can only exist when the government thinks itself secure."
"It's a good thing we don't get all the government we pay for."
"We are a forward-looking people, and we must have a forward-looking government."
"The government must pursue a course of complete neutrality toward religion."
"Congress needs strong parties, but it also needs the capacity to deal with budget and entitlement challenges that are likely beyond the reach of pure partisan exertion."
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"I was very lucky all three newspapers approached me and asked me to draw their cartoons for them."
"Mandela once phoned me out of the blue while he was still president, and at first he played with me a bit."
"I think the eyes are very revealing and can expose a lot about a persons mood or character."
"On one occasion in 1987 the security police came looking for me because of a drawing that I'd published."
"I normally keep a series of draft in a catalogue type of book in which I scribble, sketch and draw ideas."
"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."
"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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