I would think a sense of the absurd is more important for a political cartoonist, because that could define things like a sense of hypocrisy or a sense of the things one has to be skeptical about.

I eventually saw the satirical nature of caricaturing individuals.

There are certain people within the new government who have a slightly disturbing tendency toward authoritarianism, but there are so many checks and balances that in that way their noises are just noises.

Primarily I'm a social commentator rather than someone who's out to get the belly laugh.

Sometimes I have to compromise my views, but I never compromise on issues like the death penalty and the arm trade laws, despite what the readers or letters may say.

What's much harder is taking on people in your own community.

Even people that I agree with can do something that would be a target for a bit of humor.

There was a teacher who recognized that I was interested in cartooning and he was great.

I am anti-Bush. A lot of what he stands for is the antithesis of what I stand for.

I see the cartoonist as contributing to the content, being critical, because we do poke holes in some of the dialogue and find new ways of seeing things.

The cartoons which I enjoy have caused some kind of out rage, but they have got people talking about these issues out in the open and in essence that's what its all about.

Certainly in cartooning I'm given huge free rein at the moment.

I think the eyes are very revealing and can expose a lot about a persons mood or character.

You can't undo a deportation.

I normally keep a series of draft in a catalogue type of book in which I scribble, sketch and draw ideas.

I was very lucky all three newspapers approached me and asked me to draw their cartoons for them.

I would think a sense of the absurd is more important for a political cartoonist, because that could define things like a sense of hypocrisy or a sense of the things one has to be skeptical about.

Gee, I am a complete Luddite when it comes to computers, I can barely log on!

On one occasion in 1987 the security police came looking for me because of a drawing that I'd published.

It's to be a person who's able to shoot little arrows into sacred cows and knock politicians off their pedestals, to look out for hypocrisy, advocate for all sorts of things from social justice to peace.

I try not to change my political point of view from paper to paper.

Mandela once phoned me out of the blue while he was still president, and at first he played with me a bit.

We do, and there is a law in the United States - the Torture Convention - that prohibits the United States from deporting an individual to a country where there is a reasonable expectation that he will be subjected to torture - physical, mental or otherwise.

Rude contact with facts chased my visions and dreams quickly away, and in their stead I beheld the horrors, the corruption, the evils and hypocrisy of society, and as I stood among them, a young wife, a great wail of agony went out from my soul.

No habit or quality is more easily acquired than hypocrisy, nor any thing sooner learned than to deny the sentiments of our hearts and the principle we act from: but the seeds of every passion are innate to us, and nobody comes into the world without them.

Even modern English people are imperious, superior, ridden by class. All of the hypocrisy and the difficulties that are endemic in being British also make it an incredibly fertile place culturally. A brilliant place to live. Sad but true.

Morality becomes hypocrisy if it means accepting mothers' suffering or dying in connection with unwanted pregnancies and illegal abortions and unwanted children.

Discretion is the polite word for hypocrisy.

Hypocrisy is great fodder for comedy.

With people of limited ability modesty is merely honesty. But with those who possess great talent it is hypocrisy.

Hypocrisy is not generally a social sin, but a virtue.

Why does the rest of the world put up with the hypocrisy, the need to put a happy face on sorrow, the need to keep on keeping on?... I don't know the answer, I know only that I can't.

Mathematics allows for no hypocrisy and no vagueness.

When we walk away from global warming, Kyoto, when we are irresponsibly slow in moving toward AIDS in Africa, when we don't advance and live up to our own rhetoric and standards, we set a terrible message of duplicity and hypocrisy.

A Conservative Government is an organized hypocrisy.

When I saw corruption, I was forced to find truth on my own. I couldn't swallow the hypocrisy.

Amin is the shame of the whole world. The fact that he managed to rule so long and commit so many crimes was only possible thanks to the hypocrisy of the East and the West who were waging the Cold War for world domination.

Hypocrisy is a value that I think has been embraced by the Republican Party. We get lectured by people all day long about moral values by people who have their own moral shortcomings.

Hypocrisy is the outside of cynicism.

Hypocrisy can afford to be magnificent in its promises, for never intending to go beyond promise, it costs nothing.

There's no hypocrisy in Hell's Kitchen.

The point is that there is tremendous hypocrisy among the Christian right. And I think that Christian voters should start looking at global warming and extreme poverty as a religious issue that speaks to the culture of life.

The idea of democracy has been stripped of it moral imperatives and come to denote hollowness and hypocrisy.

Rural towns aren't always idyllic. It's easy to feel trapped and be aware of social hypocrisy.

Honest discussions - even and perhaps especially on topics about which we disagree - can help us resist hypocrisy and arrogance. They can also help us live up to the basic ideals, such as liberty and justice for all, on which our country was founded.

The only vice that cannot be forgiven is hypocrisy. The repentance of a hypocrite is itself hypocrisy.

Liberty is the right of every man to be honest, to think and to speak without hypocrisy.

Hypocrisy is the homage vice pays to virtue.

There are three things in the world that deserve no mercy, hypocrisy, fraud, and tyranny.