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I don't think the American government has a lot of respect for culture.

Aaron McGruder

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Aaron McGruder
Age: 50
Born: 1974
Born: May 29
Cartoonist
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Television Producer
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Fidel Castro just talked a long time, and he talked and he talked and he talked and he talked... and he talked during the meeting. I think it was about four hours. But I guess that's part of the Castro spirit.
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Anyone with a gun can go out and commit an act of terrorism, even without a political affiliation.
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One, I push my deadlines closer than anybody else, or let's say it this way: I'm really late.
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I wonder what it means when your grandson is more crotchety than you are.
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Whether the Republicans intentions are good or evil - I pretty much assume that they're evil - but no matter what, man, when the people in charge make giant mistakes, everyone suffers. Even if they do have good intentions, when you make giant mistakes, it's a bad thing.
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The American people have no control over what the military does. We have no say in American foreign policy.
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We have to confront the very scary fact that the president is a moron. He's really dumb.
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But I know that in Toronto and Vancouver there are all the comforts of America, and yet there's a difference in the people, and I had health care.
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Voting really doesn't mean anything. I wish I could say something different, but I think it's kind of a sham.
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Look at this Judith Miller thing. Isn't that problematic? Like, she's getting fed information from the White House and she's feeding it to her editors and then it's in the Times and then the people at the White House can quote themselves? And it's the New York Times!
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Late to bed and late to wake will keep you long on money and short on mistakes.
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I do the interviews and then I read about myself. I understand it and I get what it is. But there's so much stuff that I say, either jokingly or lightheartedly, that gets printed like I'm dead serious.
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And I'm not so in love with making people mad that I want to live my life around it.
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I'm actually kind of angriest about the fact that everybody keeps saying how angry I am.
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You can't accuse the creator of The Boondocks, ... Jesus was black, Ronald Reagan was the devil and the government is lying about 9/11.
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I cannot be made into the commentator for the unspoken black masses.
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I just tell jokes, and I think a lot of people take it too seriously. It's not that I don't have things that I'm angry about in the world, and I think most decent human beings are upset about things, and even upset about things in their own country, but I'm not a particularly unhappy fellow.
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You know, Democratic and Republican administrations alike have supported individuals and regimes that have slaughtered millions across the globe. And they need to be held accountable for that.
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When the news wants to tell you something is important, they put dramatic theme music behind it. They scare you into watching the story.
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Obviously, there's a million things we're allowed to say on late-night cable that you're not allowed to say on a prime time broadcast.
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