Journalism was looked upon as a more noble thing than it is now. I don’t know if it carries the same cachet that it did then. Pat Oliphant Read Quote
I’ve always looked upon politics as a very boring thing. Politics never interested me as much as the people involved in it. Pat Oliphant Read Quote
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. Pat Oliphant Read Quote
So many cartoonists draw the same year after year. When they find a style, they stick with it. They don’t mess with innovation, and they become boring. Pat Oliphant Read Quote
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. Pat Oliphant Read Quote
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. Pat Oliphant Read Quote
