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Quote by Carl Hiaasen
From my experience, politicians are much more uncomfortable being

From my experience, politicians are much more uncomfortable being made fun of than they are being preached at and screeched at – you know, and the soapbox routine. Theyre much more uneasy knowing theyre a target of ridicule. – Carl Hiaasen

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My humour has always come from anger, but I have to make sure I dont just get angry and jump on a soapbox. – Carl Hiaasen

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Good satire comes from anger. It comes from a sense of injustice, that there are wrongs in the world that need to be fixed. And what better place to get that well of venom and outrage boiling than a newsroom, because youre on the front lines. – Carl Hiaasen

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It evolved from my experience in the fifties, growing up during the McCarthy era, and hearing a lot of assumptions that America was wonderful and Communism was terrible. – Warren Farrell

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Climb the ladder of dead mistakes to your goal. – Terri Guillemets

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