A Quote by Garry Trudeau
Anyone dumb enough to get his political information from a comic strip deserves what he gets at the polls.
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If somebody's dumb enough to ask me to go to a political convention and say something, they're gonna have to take what they get.
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A stand-up comedian faces the audiences and gets their immediate feedback. I hide behind the comic strip, and unless people write to me, I dont know what they think.
I wasn't intending to create a comic strip to begin with. So I think I wasn't aware that when the strip started, there had never been a woman's voice quite like this in the newspaper.
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