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Top 30 Ted Rall Quotes (2025 Update)

Ted Rall Quote: “Close friends love you for who you are; not what they want you to be.”

1. “Close friends love you for who you are; not what they want you to be.”

Ted Rall Quote: “Life is incredibly short, yet we’re always told that change takes time. For a race of mortals, dicking around just isn’t acceptable.”

2. “Life is incredibly short, yet we’re always told that change takes time. For a race of mortals, dicking around just isn’t acceptable.”

Ted Rall Quote: “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.”

3. “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 Quote: “Do our government’s poorly paid contract killers deserve our ‘support’ for blindly following orders?”

4. “Do our government’s poorly paid contract killers deserve our ‘support’ for blindly following orders?”

Ted Rall Quote: “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.”

5. “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 Quote: “Money stress is what used to remind me of my Dad most.”

6. “Money stress is what used to remind me of my Dad most.”

Ted Rall Quote: “Anyway, I tried liking Jimmy Corrigan but I couldn’t.”

7. “Anyway, I tried liking Jimmy Corrigan but I couldn’t.”

Ted Rall Quote: “Even though I’m a leftist. I think the left eats its own.”

8. “Even though I’m a leftist. I think the left eats its own.”

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

9. “The first step to stringing the boss up from a lamppost is saying the boss is a moron.”

Ted Rall Quote: “If I had to rank my skills, I have a long way to go before I can write a good graphic novel.”

10. “If I had to rank my skills, I have a long way to go before I can write a good graphic novel.”

Ted Rall Quote: “I’m a better polemicist in prose.”

11. “I’m a better polemicist in prose.”

Ted Rall Quote: “Imagine foreign troops sitting idly, laughing as hooligans trashed the Smithsonian, stole the gold from Fort Knox and burned down the Department of the Interior. That was us in Iraq.”

12. “Imagine foreign troops sitting idly, laughing as hooligans trashed the Smithsonian, stole the gold from Fort Knox and burned down the Department of the Interior. That was us in Iraq.”

Ted Rall Quote: “On the ground, Pakistan is the most virulently anti-American state on the planet.”

13. “On the ground, Pakistan is the most virulently anti-American state on the planet.”

Ted Rall Quote: “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.”

14. “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 Quote: “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.”

15. “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 Quote: “Saddam Hussein, influenced by fascism, ordered the deaths of tens of thousands of people, fought two disastrous wars, turned his nation into an international pariah and ruined his country’s economy. In other words, his record is identical to George W. Bush’s.”

16. “Saddam Hussein, influenced by fascism, ordered the deaths of tens of thousands of people, fought two disastrous wars, turned his nation into an international pariah and ruined his country’s economy. In other words, his record is identical to George W. Bush’s.”

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

17. “There was an honorable tradition of using anonymous sources that was ruined by Jayson Blair.”

Ted Rall Quote: “Conservative humor is frankly harder than liberal humor. You get points for just being liberal. You can get more points if you make fun of your own side sometimes.”

18. “Conservative humor is frankly harder than liberal humor. You get points for just being liberal. You can get more points if you make fun of your own side sometimes.”

Ted Rall Quote: “Comics are too big. You can’t say any kind or genre of comics is better than another. You can say so subjectively. But to say it like it’s objective is wrong. It’s wrong morally, because it cuts out stuff that’s good.”

19. “Comics are too big. You can’t say any kind or genre of comics is better than another. You can say so subjectively. But to say it like it’s objective is wrong. It’s wrong morally, because it cuts out stuff that’s good.”

Ted Rall Quote: “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.”

20. “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 Quote: “Up until 1995, I still had a day job that I hated. I was still personally involved in things in the 90s.”

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

Ted Rall Quote: “At this point, American workers are pretty respectful of the bosses they loathe.”

22. “At this point, American workers are pretty respectful of the bosses they loathe.”

Ted Rall Quote: “Most people don’t know how to tell stories.”

23. “Most people don’t know how to tell stories.”

Ted Rall Quote: “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.”

24. “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 Quote: “Anyone should be able to read comics.”

25. “Anyone should be able to read comics.”

Ted Rall Quote: “When I put together a graphic novel, I don’t think about literary prose. I think about storytelling.”

26. “When I put together a graphic novel, I don’t think about literary prose. I think about storytelling.”

Ted Rall Quote: “I think jazz is good, but I don’t enjoy it. It’s not for me.”

27. “I think jazz is good, but I don’t enjoy it. It’s not for me.”

Ted Rall Quote: “I’m a better editorial cartoonist by default because so many editorial cartoonists out there are so awful.”

28. “I’m a better editorial cartoonist by default because so many editorial cartoonists out there are so awful.”

Ted Rall Quote: “I never consciously do any work directly influenced from any movie, unless I’m doing a parody.”

29. “I never consciously do any work directly influenced from any movie, unless I’m doing a parody.”

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

30. “When you do a cartoon based on news headlines, you do it based on incomplete information.”

Ted Rall Quote: “It’s a perfectly valid position to not like Shakespeare.”

31. “It’s a perfectly valid position to not like Shakespeare.”

Ted Rall Quote: “I don’t think anyone has written a great graphic novel.”

32. “I don’t think anyone has written a great graphic novel.”

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