David Horsey
David Horsey
David Horseyis a Pulitzer Prize-winning editorial cartoonist in the United States. His cartoons appeared in the Seattle Post-Intelligencer until December 2011 and in the Los Angeles Times currently and are syndicated to newspapers nationwide...
NationalityAmerican
ProfessionCartoonist
CountryUnited States of America
David Horsey quotes about
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The rap on Obama has been that he is a little too cool and aloof. The rap on Romney may be that he is just plain callous.
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The appalling reality in American politics today is that, when ideology and money mix, truth is a mere inconvenience.
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I've always called myself a journalist who happens to draw. If I wasn't drawing cartoons, I'd be writing stories.
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I'm skeptical of the 'go local' approach to cartooning to preserve your job.
I always figured that I was one new editor away from unemployment.
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Even if you're drawing a cartoon and exaggerating, you want to capture something true about the person.
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From China and India to Turkey and Brazil, when women have gotten access to education, to family planning and to a vital place in the economy, greater prosperity has followed. And when women are free to speak and learn, they temper the extremes of ideology and fanaticism and raise sons who are less likely to become human bombs.
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As long as anger, paranoia and misinformation drive our political debate, there are unhinged souls among us who will feel justified in turning to violent remedies for imagined threats.
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Elevating the status of women is our best path to peace, justice, and prosperity on a global scale.
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Like gods, we have created a new universe called cyberspace that contains great good and ominous evil. We do not know yet if this new dimension will produce more monsters than marvels, but it is too late to go back.
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What seems strange is that Obama elicits such extreme dislike when, in fact, he is an exemplary family man, and his policy positions would have made him a conventional liberal Republican not that long ago.
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Our vision of war is probably too influenced by the biggest one of all, World War II, where the forces of evil were so unambiguous and so relentless that there was no choice but to commit to total war and to demand unconditional surrender. Seldom, though, is it quite that clear cut.
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Maybe it's stress or anger or adrenaline or disillusionment or a bullying nature or simple fear of getting killed themselves, but there is a problem if a cop cannot tell the difference between a menacing gangster and the far more common person they encounter whose life is a little frayed and messy.
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It is really no surprise that, in a media world that has been so compromised by an invasion of political partisans and inarticulate airheads with communications degrees, a fake journalist can seem more trustworthy than the real thing.