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"I've always looked upon politics as a very boring thing. Politics never interested me as much as the people involved in it."
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"Well, we are very glad that Russia is so close with NATO."
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"The two great cultural and political currents of Italy have always only been concerned with the masses."
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"Prosperity is necessarily the first theme of a political campaign."
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"Democracy is not perfect. It is an imperfection that the majority choose to support."
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"She's leaving when the president has one of the highest approval ratings on record. From here, it can only go down. And when it does, you know who they're going to blame. They're gonna blame Andy Card!"
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"The Clinton era is over. I think that there would even have been a certain amount of rejoicing among some Republicans if Gore had won or if Ralph Nader had won or if Satan had won."
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"It's called political economy because it is has nothing to do with either politics or economy."
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"The Church of England is the Tory party at prayer."
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"I hope that we shall crush in its birth the aristocracy of our monied corporations which dare already to challenge our government to a trial of strength, and bid defiance to the laws of our country."
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"Pol Pot carried out through the years enormous purges against his own followers because of his paranoia."
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"I don't think there's more than half-a-dozen cartoons that I've been really truly happy with in all the time I've been doing it."
Time

"The fact that we're protected under that Constitution in exercising the right of free speech, it's a wonderful thing. You've got to come from somewhere else to realize how valuable it is."
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"I've been in Washington ever since 1981, trying to get out!"
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"Even if you go to Australia today, it's very much like visiting a state you haven't been to."
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"I can always see what I've done wrong. I'm always learning. I'm the perennial student."
Learning

"There has always been quite a strong black and white art tradition in Australia, with quite a large contingent of cartoonists, given the size of the population."
Art

"One-newspaper towns are not good because all the surviving newspaper does is print money. They make 25 percent on their money every year, and if they go down to 22 percent, they start laying people off."
Money

"Journalism was looked upon as a more noble thing than it is now. I don't know if it carries the same cachet that it did then."
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"I see myself as an artist who happens to do cartoons."
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"If it were not for the fact that editors have become so timorous in these politically correct times, I would probably have a greater readership than I have."
Editors
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