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Cartoonist Quotes (268)

"You know, Democratic and Republican administrations alike have supported individuals and regimes that have slaughtered millions across the globe. And they need to be held accountable for that."

Aaron Mcgruder
Topic: Wisdom

"I want the news delivered unbiased. I thought that was the whole point with journalism."

Aaron Mcgruder
Topic: Wisdom

"We have to confront the very scary fact that the president is a moron. He's really dumb."

Aaron Mcgruder
Topic: Wisdom

"One, I push my deadlines closer than anybody else, or let's say it this way: I'm really late."

Aaron Mcgruder
Topic: Wisdom

"You know, every time a summer movie comes out, people think they're gonna get rich off of the merchandise."

Aaron Mcgruder
Topic: Wisdom

"The American people have no control over what the military does. We have no say in American foreign policy."

Aaron Mcgruder
Topic: Motivation

"There's some new evidence that has just come out about the CIA planning terrorist attacks on U.S. soil in the '60s and how they were going to set up Castro for it in order to get America behind a war in Cuba."

Aaron Mcgruder
Topic: Motivation

"When the news wants to tell you something is important, they put dramatic theme music behind it. They scare you into watching the story."

Aaron Mcgruder
Topic: Creativity

"I'm not a Democrat."

Aaron Mcgruder
Topic: Wisdom

"I don't want the news to be patriotic. I don't want to see flags on the lapels of the anchors. I don't want any of that."

Aaron Mcgruder
Topic: Motivation

"Anyone with a gun can go out and commit an act of terrorism, even without a political affiliation."

Aaron Mcgruder
Topic: Motivation

"Once you give up rights, they're not going to give them back."

Aaron Mcgruder
Topic: Motivation

"We have, essentially, a worthless democracy."

Aaron Mcgruder
Topic: Wisdom

"And I'm not so in love with making people mad that I want to live my life around it."

Aaron Mcgruder
Topic: Love

"I cannot be made into the commentator for the unspoken black masses."

Aaron Mcgruder
Topic: Wisdom

"I've always looked upon the Ducks as caricature human beings. Perhaps I've been years writing in that middle world that J.R.R. Tolkien describes, and never knew it."

Carl Barks
Topic: Wisdom

"I always felt myself to be an unlucky person like Donald, who is a victim of so many circumstances. But there isn't a person in the United States who couldn't identify with him. He is everything, he is everybody; he makes the same mistakes that we all make."

Carl Barks
Topic: Wisdom

"I was never a Boy Scout, but oh, I wanted to be one when I was a kid about ten or eleven years old. But there wasn't anyplace where I could ever join the Boy Scouts."

Carl Barks
Topic: Wisdom

"There was no difference between my characters and the life my readers were going to have to face."

Carl Barks
Topic: Wisdom

"I enjoyed doing the gag covers better than the story ones because they were usually simpler. A cover based on an incident in the plot took a great deal of staging to tell a little story that was still part of the book. And it had to make sense on its own."

Carl Barks
Topic: Creativity

"I read some of my stories recently and thought, 'How in the hell did I get away with that?' I had some really raw cynicism in some of them."

Carl Barks
Topic: Wisdom

"In the field of resilience & focus, we are not defined by the weight of our struggles, but by the strength we find when we rise."

Dan Decarlo
Topic: Resilience

"Like a lighthouse in the storm, your inner resolve must remain steady and bright. As a historical figure, this is the foundational truth I have observed."

Dan Decarlo
Topic: Resilience

"The hardest trials do not consume the gold; they refine the spirit and clear the path ahead."

Dan Decarlo
Topic: Resilience

"Don't cry because it's over. Smile because it happened."

Dr Seuss
Topic: Wisdom

"Today you are you! That is truer than true! There is no one alive who is you-er than you!"

Dr Seuss
Topic: Wisdom

"You have brains in your head. You have feet in your shoes. You can steer yourself in any direction you choose. You're on your own, and you know what you know. And you are the guy who'll decide where to go."

Dr Seuss
Topic: Wisdom

"Maybe Christmas, the Grinch thought, doesn't come from a store."

Dr Seuss
Topic: Wisdom

"A person's a person, no matter how small."

Dr Seuss
Topic: Wisdom

"I like nonsense; it wakes up the brain cells."

Dr Seuss
Topic: Wisdom
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