Australian - Cartoonist | July 24, 1935 -
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.
Pat Oliphant
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There were dragons to slay in the old days. Nixon was a good dragon.
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We're all idealistic when young.
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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.
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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.
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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.
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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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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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An outsider's point of view is always handy.
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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've been in Washington ever since 1981, trying to get out!
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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.
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