Ted Rall Quotes

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

  Ted Rall

  Writing, Thinking, Together

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• The word 'hero' has been bandied about a lot to refer to anyone killed in Afghanistan or Iraq. But anyone who voluntarily goes to Afghanistan or Iraq [as a soldier] is fighting for an evil cause under an evil commander in chief.

  Ted Rall

  Hero, Fighting, Iraq

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• The first step to stringing the boss up from a lamppost is saying the boss is a moron.

  Ted Rall

  Boss, Firsts, Steps

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• For an ordinary citizen, what is the common interaction you have with a police officer? When they pull you over for speeding, or when they write you a ticket for parking. The rest of the time is patrolling minority neighborhoods like an occupying army. It's suppression of blacks, and it's revenue enhancement. Surveillance is a Band-Aid. That's like saying, "Let's surveil the SS." No! Let's get rid of the SS!

  Ted Rall

  Writing, Army, Police

  Source: www.guernicamag.com

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• Life is incredibly short, yet we're always told that change takes time. For a race of mortals, dicking around just isn't acceptable.

  Ted Rall

  Race, Life Is, Take Time

  Ted Rall (2001). “Search and Destroy: Cartoons”, p.107, Andrews McMeel Publishing

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• Even though I'm a leftist. I think the left eats its own.

  Ted Rall

  Thinking, Leftists, Left

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

  Ted Rall

  Writing, Skills, Long

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• I would like to fire every cop in America and start from scratch. We don't need as many of them, and the whole model of policing is completely off the rails. For the most part, the police are engaged in very little protection of the public. That's probably 5 percent of what they do. The rest of it is writing tickets.

  Ted Rall

  Writing, Police, Cop

  Source: www.guernicamag.com

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

  Ted Rall

  People, Stories, Brussel Sprouts

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• Saddam Hussein, influenced by fascism, ordered the deaths of tens of thousands of people, fought two disastrous wars, turned his nation into an international pariah and ruined his country’s economy. In other words, his record is identical to George W. Bush’s.

  Ted Rall

  Country, War, Two

  "Time to Trade Up" by Ted Rall, rall.com. July 5, 2004.

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• I don't think anyone has written a great graphic novel.

  Ted Rall

  Thinking, Graphic Novels, Written

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• That's what comics journalism does better than anything else: you can get a feeling of what it was like. Like Scott McCloud says, especially with a simple drawing style, you can project yourself into the image, and imagine yourself having those experiences.

  Ted Rall

  Simple, Feelings, Style

  Source: www.guernicamag.com

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• Over time, however, the endless war in Iraq began to play a role in natural selection. Only idiots signed up; only idiots died. Back home, the average I.Q. soared.

  Ted Rall

  War, Home, Average

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• I think jazz is good, but I don't enjoy it. It's not for me.

  Ted Rall

  Thinking, Jazz, Enjoy

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

  Ted Rall

  Awful, Default, Cartoonist

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• What people don't seem to ever understand is that any infrastructure that exists under your regime, in your current government, will be appropriated and inherited by the next regime. I mean, the KGB came out of the NKVD which came out of the Tsarist version of the same thing. And now, the FSB operates out of the old KGB building in Moscow. The infrastructure remains exactly the same. There's a little bit of reshuffling of personnel, and that's it. The way to make sure that there's no FSB today would have been for the Tsar to not have built an infrastructure for it in the 1800s.

  Ted Rall

  Mean, People, Today

  Source: www.guernicamag.com

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• I'm a better polemicist in prose.

  Ted Rall

  Prose

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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.

  Ted Rall

  Confused, Thinking, Fans

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• Do our government's poorly paid contract killers deserve our 'support' for blindly following orders?

  Ted Rall

  Government, Order, Support

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• Here in the US, we've built this insane infrastructure of oppression. When it's not run by a Barack Obama - who, by the way, I don't think is a perfect president - but by someone who is off-kilter, like a Carly Fiorina, that could be dangerous.

  Ted Rall

  Running, Thinking, Perfect

  Source: www.guernicamag.com

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• Comics are too big. You can't say any kind or genre of comics is better than another. You can say so subjectively. But to say it like it's objective is wrong. It's wrong morally, because it cuts out stuff that's good.

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  Cutting, Stuff, Kind

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

  Ted Rall

  Dad, Stress, Used

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• I never consciously do any work directly influenced from any movie, unless I'm doing a parody.

  Ted Rall

  Parody

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• Anyone should be able to read comics.

  Ted Rall

  Book, Reading, Able

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• Imagine foreign troops sitting idly, laughing as hooligans trashed the Smithsonian, stole the gold from Fort Knox and burned down the Department of the Interior. That was us in Iraq.

  Ted Rall

  Usa, Iraq, Laughing

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