We're all idealistic when young.- Pat Oliphant
There were dragons to slay in the old days. Nixon was a good dragon.
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.
The fact that we are 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.
Some days you feel like this is really going well. You can tell. Other days, you are just drawing like a farmer and you do not know why.
So many cartoonists draw the same year after year. When they find a style, they stick with it. They do not mess with innovation, and they become boring.
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.
Journalism was looked upon as a more noble thing than it is now. I do not know if it carries the same cachet that it did then.
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.
I have been in Washington ever since 1981, trying to get out!
I have always looked upon politics as a very boring thing. Politics never interested me as much as the people involved in it.
I see myself as an artist who happens to do cartoons.
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.
I do not think there's more than half-a-dozen cartoons that I have been really truly happy with in all the time I have been doing it.
I can always see what I have done wrong. I am always learning. I am the perennial student.
