29 Quotes by Pat Oliphant

An outsider's point of view is always handy.

I can always see what I've done wrong. I'm always learning. I'm the perennial student.

I've always looked upon politics as a very boring thing. Politics never interested me as much as the people involved in it.

There were dragons to slay in the old days. Nixon was a good dragon.

So many cartoonists draw the same year after year. When they find a style, they stick with it. They don't mess with innovation, and they become boring.

The fact that we're protected under that Constitution in exercising the right of free speech, it's a wonderful thing. You've got to come from somewhere else to realize how valuable it is.

If it were not for the fact that editors have become so timorous in these politically correct times, I would probably have a greater readership than I have.

Journalism was looked upon as a more noble thing than it is now. I don't know if it carries the same cachet that it did then.

Some days you feel like this is really going well. You can tell. Other days, you're just drawing like a farmer and you don't know why.