Orrin Hatch was the keynote speaker at the last meeting of the Association of American Editorial Cartoonists. He sought me out because he was a fan. I was thinking he had confused me with someone else.
Ted Rall

Silk Road to Ruin has all the analysis and it's structured very well. I rely on my notes more and I use direct quotes. But there's nothing like writing about it right away.
Ted Rall

The best thing about being a cartoonist is to walk into a bar or someone's apartment and they don't know you, but they've taped one of your pieces up.
Ted Rall

The experts who managed the original Marshall Plan say Afghanistan needs a commitment of at least $5 to $10 billion over 5 to 10 years, coupled with occupation forces of 250,000 Allied soldiers to keep the peace throughout the country.
Ted Rall

The first step to stringing the boss up from a lamppost is saying the boss is a moron.
Ted Rall

There was an honorable tradition of using anonymous sources that was ruined by Jayson Blair.
Ted Rall

Trying to rebuild Afghanistan on the cheap has left the country in the hands of warlords and an impotent Northern Alliance puppet regime that runs Kabul and nothing else.
Ted Rall

Up until 1995, I still had a day job that I hated. I was still personally involved in things in the 90s.
Ted Rall

When I put together a graphic novel, I don't think about literary prose. I think about storytelling.
Ted Rall

When you do a cartoon based on news headlines, you do it based on incomplete information.
Ted Rall

When you have birds you stare at them a lot and their eyes are recessed on their head. When they look at something they tilt their head in a quizzical expression.
Ted Rall