But Trudeau said he has no personal malice for the figures he mocks.
"With me it's never personal...it's my job," he said. "I've been whacking public figures [since] back when Mr. Quayle was still whacking golf balls through law school."
Doonesbury oozes progressivism, Trudeau said.
He described himself as "the last angry moderate, which is a liberal with children."
He got his start as a professional cartoonist long before he became a "liberal with children," in his junior year at Yale.
"The miracle of serendipity is wasted on youth," he said.
He said he received his first job solely because of his "generational identity," which consisted, he said, of "routine encounters with politics, rock and roll, sex, and drugs."
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