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" An outsider's point of view is always handy. "
Always
Outsider
Point Of View
" Even if you go to Australia today, it's very much like visiting a state you haven't been to. "
Today
Much
Like
" I can always see what I've done wrong. I'm always learning. I'm the perennial student. "
Always
Learning
I Can
" 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. "
Been
Time
Think
" 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. "
Correct
Editors
Fact
" I hate changes of administrations, because I have all my villains in place and they are all taken away and replaced with faceless wonders nobody knows. "
Place
Changes
Nobody
" I see myself as an artist who happens to do cartoons. "
Cartoons
See
Artist
" I've always looked upon politics as a very boring thing. Politics never interested me as much as the people involved in it. "
Always
Boring
Politics
" I've been in Washington ever since 1981, trying to get out! "
Trying
Ever
Been
" 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. "
More
Now
Same
" 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. "
People
Down
Good
" So many cartoonists draw the same year after year. When they find a style, they stick with it. They don't mess with innovation, and they become boring. "
Style
Innovation
Find
" Some days you feel like this is really going well. You can tell. Other days, you're just drawing like a farmer and you don't know why. "
Why
You
Farmer
" 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. "
Realize
Free
Constitution
" 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
Black
Black And White
" There were dragons to slay in the old days. Nixon was a good dragon. "
Old
Dragons
Dragon
" We're all idealistic when young. "
Idealistic
Young
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