Ted Rall famous quotes

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

#Boss #Firsts #Steps

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

#Thinking #Leftists

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

#Thinking #Graphic Novels #Novel

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

#Parody

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

#Thinking #Jazz #Enjoy

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

#Awful #Default #Cartoonist

I'm a better polemicist in prose.
-- Ted Rall

#Prose

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

#Writing #Skills #Long

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

#Position

Most people don't know how to tell stories.
-- Ted Rall

#People #Stories

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

#Pakistan #Planets #States

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.
-- Ted Rall

#Eye #Expression #Bird

When I put together a graphic novel, I don't think about literary prose. I think about storytelling.
-- Ted Rall

#Thinking #Together #Storytelling

Comics are too big. You can't say any kind or genre of comics is better than another. You can say so subjectively. But to say it like it's objective is wrong. It's wrong morally, because it cuts out stuff that's good.
-- Ted Rall

#Cutting #Stuff #Kind

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

#Boss #Respectful #Workers

Close friends love you for who you are; not what they want you to be.
-- Ted Rall

#Friendship #Love You #Want

Over time, however, the endless war in Iraq began to play a role in natural selection. Only idiots signed up; only idiots died. Back home, the average I.Q. soared.
-- Ted Rall

#War #Home #Average

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

#Dad #Stress #Used

Do our government's poorly paid contract killers deserve our 'support' for blindly following orders?
-- Ted Rall

#Order #Government #Support

The word 'hero' has been bandied about a lot to refer to anyone killed in Afghanistan or Iraq. But anyone who voluntarily goes to Afghanistan or Iraq [as a soldier] is fighting for an evil cause under an evil commander in chief.
-- Ted Rall

#Hero #Fighting #Iraq

Saddam Hussein, influenced by fascism, ordered the deaths of tens of thousands of people, fought two disastrous wars, turned his nation into an international pariah and ruined his country's economy. In other words, his record is identical to George W. Bush's.
-- Ted Rall

#Country #War #Two

Anyone should be able to read comics.
-- Ted Rall

#Reading #Book #Able

Life is incredibly short, yet we're always told that change takes time. For a race of mortals, dicking around just isn't acceptable.
-- Ted Rall

#Race #Life Is #Take Time

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

#Jimmy

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.
-- Ted Rall

#Writing #Use #Ruins

When you do a cartoon based on news headlines, you do it based on incomplete information.
-- Ted Rall

#Cartoon #Information #News

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.
-- Ted Rall

#Fun #Humor #Just Being

Imagine foreign troops sitting idly, laughing as hooligans trashed the Smithsonian, stole the gold from Fort Knox and burned down the Department of the Interior. That was us in Iraq.
-- Ted Rall

#Usa #Iraq #Laughing

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.
-- Ted Rall

#Running #Country #Hands

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

#Tradition #Blair #Source

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.
-- Ted Rall

#Country #Commitment #Years

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.
-- Ted Rall

#Pieces #Bars #Apartment

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.
-- Ted Rall

#Confused #Thinking #Fans

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

#Jobs #Hated #Stills