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  • I was reading through all these NSA programs that Snowden has revealed, and one of the ones that fascinated me was that smart TVs can be used to look at you in your room. That is totally like the telescreen from 1984. It's not sort of like it, it's not a lot like it, it is it. And the ability of the NSA to turn on your cell phone, even if it's powered down, and listen to you in your home - that's insane to me. People had been warning that 1984 was just around the corner. Well, it has arrived, and Snowden has proven that.

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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.

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

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

  • 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.

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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.

  • I'm a better polemicist in prose.

  • 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.

  • 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.

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

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

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

  • Close friends love you for who you are; not what they want you to be.

    Ted Rall (1998). “Revenge of the latchkey kids: an illustrated guide to surviving the 90s and beyond”, Workman Publishing
  • On the ground, Pakistan is the most virulently anti-American state on the planet.

  • 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.

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

  • 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.

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

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

  • Anyway, I tried liking Jimmy Corrigan but I couldn't.

  • 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.

  • Bernie Sanders is an impressive guy. His authenticity and his credibility stem precisely from the fact that he has been marginalized from the mainstream political process for decades. He's been in the US Senate, yeah, he has had a life in politics for thirty years, but he's never really been able to get anything done. He's the only socialist in the US Congress. He's not a Democrat or a Republican, but he's always been saying the same things about income inequality, in particular.

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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.

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    "Time to Trade Up" by Ted Rall, rall.com. July 5, 2004.
  • When I put together a graphic novel, I don't think about literary prose. I think about storytelling.

  • At this point, American workers are pretty respectful of the bosses they loathe.

  • 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.

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

  • 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.

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

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    Ted Rall

    • Born: August 26, 1963
    • Occupation: Cartoonist