36 Quotes by Jonathan Shapiro


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    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.

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

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    Unless you pull the trigger, plunge the knife, unless your act is the homicidal act, you're not eligible for the death penalty.

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    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.

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    born into poverty, as a 3-year-old dealing with a mother dying of breast cancer, raised by a 12-year-old sibling.

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

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