Jonathan Shapiro Quotes

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

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

Gee, I am a complete Luddite when it comes to computers, I can barely log on!

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

I eventually saw the satirical nature of caricaturing individuals.

I see the cartoonist as contributing to the content, being critical, because we do poke holes in some of the dialogue and find new ways of seeing things.

I think the eyes are very revealing and can expose a lot about a persons mood or character.

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.

It's to be a person who's able to shoot little arrows into sacred cows and knock politicians off their pedestals, to look out for hypocrisy, advocate for all sorts of things from social justice to peace.

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.

There was a teacher who recognized that I was interested in cartooning and he was great.

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.

You can't undo a deportation.