Ted Rall's Quotes

Orrin Hatch was the keynote speaker at the last meeting of the Association of American Editorial Cartoonists. He sought me out because he was a fan. I was thinking he had confused me with someone else.

Silk Road to Ruin has all the analysis and it's structured very well. I rely on my notes more and I use direct quotes. But there's nothing like writing about it right away.

The best thing about being a cartoonist is to walk into a bar or someone's apartment and they don't know you, but they've taped one of your pieces up.

The experts who managed the original Marshall Plan say Afghanistan needs a commitment of at least $5 to $10 billion over 5 to 10 years, coupled with occupation forces of 250,000 Allied soldiers to keep the peace throughout the country.

Trying to rebuild Afghanistan on the cheap has left the country in the hands of warlords and an impotent Northern Alliance puppet regime that runs Kabul and nothing else.

When you have birds you stare at them a lot and their eyes are recessed on their head. When they look at something they tilt their head in a quizzical expression.

The first step to stringing the boss up from a lamppost is saying the boss is a moron.

Money stress is what used to remind me of my Dad most.

Conservative humor is frankly harder than liberal humor. You get points for just being liberal. You can get more points if you make fun of your own side sometimes.

Anyone should be able to read comics.

Anyway, I tried liking Jimmy Corrigan but I couldn't.

At this point, American workers are pretty respectful of the bosses they loathe.

Even though I'm a leftist. I think the left eats its own.

I don't think anyone has written a great graphic novel.

I never consciously do any work directly influenced from any movie, unless I'm doing a parody.

I think Dilbert is actually a radical strip.

I think jazz is good, but I don't enjoy it. It's not for me.

I think we're the first generation to successfully integrate American society.

I'm a better editorial cartoonist by default because so many editorial cartoonists out there are so awful.

I'm a better polemicist in prose.

If I had to rank my skills, I have a long way to go before I can write a good graphic novel.

It's a perfectly valid position to not like Shakespeare.

Most people don't know how to tell stories.

On the ground, Pakistan is the most virulently anti-American state on the planet.

There was an honorable tradition of using anonymous sources that was ruined by Jayson Blair.

Up until 1995, I still had a day job that I hated. I was still personally involved in things in the 90s.