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The population has to be educated about how the government actually works.

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Aaron McGruder
Age: 50
Born: 1974
Born: May 29
Cartoonist
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Television Producer
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I think there's a lot of good and bad to L.A. One of the things you have to consider is that you can, if you're lucky, make a decent living here. That's a big plus. That's pretty positive. The weather is OK.
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I guess I was a conspiracy theorist when I said no weapons in Iraq. Now they call that history.
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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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We have to confront the very scary fact that the president is a moron. He's really dumb.
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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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I think you should know that real-life white people are not all as funny as the ones on 'Seinfeld'.
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It's difficult to overcome what you're getting beamed into your brain by the television every day. The worthlessness of journalism today is just making the country confused and bewildered and lost.
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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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Anyone with a gun can go out and commit an act of terrorism, even without a political affiliation.
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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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We don't need a two-party system. We need something else. Because at this point, the two-party system is really just a one-party system. And that one party is crumbling.
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I think the people should demand accountability on the voting. I think there's no point in voting if you're not gonna demand fairness and be able to verify each vote. And other countries can do this fairly easily. So I don't think you really want democracy if you're not willing to take that first step.
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Fluid and energetic and wild very, very smart and very, very funny.
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It may sound weird, but I don't really look for culture, particularly in an American city.
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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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I wonder what it means when your grandson is more crotchety than you are.
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At least when I was young, in high school: Eh, voting doesn't mean nothing. You don't really know that to be true, you just say it. Then you get older, and responsible, and you go, Oh heck, let me vote. And then you vote and you go away. I was actually right when I was 16.
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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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