36 Quotes by Jonathan Shapiro

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.

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

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

She is a no-nonsense judge, and she doesn't abide by nonsense from the defense or the prosecutor. Being a former assistant U.S. attorney, she holds the government attorneys to a very high standard, which is as it should be. She is evidently very disturbed by the developments in this case, which is as it should be as well.

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

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

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

I eventually saw the satirical nature of caricaturing individuals.

He's a scholar. He has plans for the future, ... He has plans which may have to be reevaluated and for which he is grieving.