Aaron McGruder Quotes

The American people have no control over what the military does. We have no say in American foreign policy.

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.

One, I push my deadlines closer than anybody else, or let’s say it this way: I’m really late.

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.

Don’t get me wrong, it definitely ain’t the Democratic Party either. They’re so bad, I mean I’m actually starting to believe that John Kerry was just token resistance, that he literally was down with George W.Bush. It was just such a horrible, horrible, horrible thing to see, that campaign. So, you know, I don’t know what’s going on.

When I pass, speak freely of my shortcomings and my flaws. Learn from them, for I’ll have no ego to injure.

Fame is not your friend. It ain’t necessarily your enemy. It is what it is.

I’m not crazy impressed with New York. I mean, I don’t buy into that whole thing: Everyone in New York is all sophisticated, and they’re into art and sophisticated things, and everyone in L.A. is just shallow entertainment people. I think people are just shallow across the board.

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.

I do think comics are a dying art form because newspapers are a dying medium. But it’s not to say that in the next generation, where there’s people getting their news electronically, comics won’t survive. Right now, they’re still largely attached to the newspaper world. And the more they can break away from that, the more they have a chance to live on.

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

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.