It’s really very simple, Governor. When people are hungry they die. So spare me your politics and tell me what you need and how you’re going to get it to these people.
BOB GELDOFYou can’t trust politicians. It doesn’t matter who makes a political speech. It’s all lies – and it applies to any rock star who wants to make a political speech as well.
More Bob Geldof Quotes
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You can’t trust politicians. It doesn’t matter who makes a political speech. It’s all lies – and it applies to any rock star who wants to make a political speech as well.
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Music is what I must do, business is what I need to do and politics is what I have to do
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Physically I’m tired at the end of the day and quite glad to be reading in bed by midnight
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You’ll think I’m off my trolley when I say this, but the Bush administration is the most radical – in a positive sense – in its approach to Africa since Kennedy.
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Music is still above all else the thing that does it for me
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We’re looking at the singular condition of poverty. All the other individual problems spring from that condition… doesn’t matter if it’s death, aid, trade, AIDS, famine, instability, governance, corruption or war. All of that is poverty.
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I don’t think anyone sets out to malign poor people but certainly that’s what we do through organizations such as the World Trade Organization, the World Bank and the International Monetary Fund.
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Our problem is that everybody tries to heal each of the individual aspects of poverty, not poverty itself.
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It strikes me as being morally repulsive and intellectually absurd that people die of want in a world of surplus.
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When Michael Jackson sings it is with the voice of angels, and when his feet move, you can see God dancing.
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Most people get into bands for three very simple rock and roll reasons: to get laid, to get fame, and to get rich.
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What’s the point in having a company of secretaries?
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You cannot even begin to understand contemporary African politics if you have not read this fascinating book
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Tell me why…… I don’t like Mondays.
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Rock and Roll is instant coffee.
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