Ted Rall Quotes

• The experts who managed the original Marshall Plan say Afghanistan needs a commitment of at least $5 to $10 billion over 5 to 10 years, coupled with occupation forces of 250,000 Allied soldiers to keep the peace throughout the country.

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  Tags in Occupation

• Trying to rebuild Afghanistan on the cheap has left the country in the hands of warlords and an impotent Northern Alliance puppet regime that runs Kabul and nothing else.

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• Orrin Hatch was the keynote speaker at the last meeting of the Association of American Editorial Cartoonists. He sought me out because he was a fan. I was thinking he had confused me with someone else.

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  Tags in Thinking, Confuse, Cartoonist

• Conservative humor is frankly harder than liberal humor. You get points for just being liberal. You can get more points if you make fun of your own side sometimes.

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  Tags in Conservative

• When you have birds you stare at them a lot and their eyes are recessed on their head. When they look at something they tilt their head in a quizzical expression.

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  Tags in Expression, Birds

• The best thing about being a cartoonist is to walk into a bar or someone’s apartment and they don’t know you, but they’ve taped one of your pieces up.

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  Tags in Best, Things, Cartoonist

• I think Maus I is better than Maus II. The standard here is whether or not it’s as good as a great book of prose literature and by that standard, no, it’s not that great.

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  Tags in Great, Think

• But now that I’m cartooning full-time, I’m more of an observer. I’m talking to people who are experiencing these things. But it’s not like being in the trenches.

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  Tags in Cartoon

• Silk Road to Ruin has all the analysis and it’s structured very well. I rely on my notes more and I use direct quotes. But there’s nothing like writing about it right away.

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  Tags in Analysis

• When you do a cartoon based on news headlines, you do it based on incomplete information.

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  Tags in Cartoon, Information

• If I had to rank my skills, I have a long way to go before I can write a good graphic novel.

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• There was an honorable tradition of using anonymous sources that was ruined by Jayson Blair.

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  Tags in Honorable, Tradition

• When I put together a graphic novel, I don’t think about literary prose. I think about storytelling.

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  Tags in Think, Thinking

• On the ground, Pakistan is the most virulently anti-American state on the planet.

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  Tags in State

• I’m a better editorial cartoonist by default because so many editorial cartoonists out there are so awful.

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  Tags in Better, Cartoonist

• Most people don’t know how to tell stories.

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  Tags in Tell

• Up until 1995, I still had a day job that I hated. I was still personally involved in things in the 90s.

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  Tags in Day

• I think Dilbert is actually a radical strip.

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  Tags in Think

• Money stress is what used to remind me of my Dad most.

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• It’s a perfectly valid position to not like Shakespeare.

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Ted Rall (31)

Birth:	26th August, 1963
Nationality:	American
Profession:	Artist, Author, Cartoonist, Columnist, Editor

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