29 Quotes by Pat Oliphant

I hate changes of administrations, because I have all my villains in place and they are all taken away and replaced with faceless wonders nobody knows.

Even if you go to Australia today, it's very much like visiting a state you haven't been to.

I don't think there's more than half-a-dozen cartoons that I've been really truly happy with in all the time I've been doing it.

I've been in Washington ever since 1981, trying to get out!

One-newspaper towns are not good because all the surviving newspaper does is print money. They make 25 percent on their money every year, and if they go down to 22 percent, they start laying people off.

There has always been quite a strong black and white art tradition in Australia, with quite a large contingent of cartoonists, given the size of the population.

I see myself as an artist who happens to do cartoons.

We're all idealistic when young.

Correct me if I'm wrong - the gizmo is connected to the flingflang connected to the watzis, watzis connected to the doo-dad connected to the ding dong.