War what is it good for? It’s good for business.
BILLY BRAGGThe key to it has to be some sort of proportional representation, which allows there to be more parties.
More Billy Bragg Quotes
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I think if you’re going to make political art, you have to engage at some level. You can’t just write about politics, you have to try and be politics as well.
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I’m still batting away on my politics for the Labour Party. I’m much further to the left of them than I used to be, but that’s because they’ve moved, not me.
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I’m just saying that we need to find a better way to manifest the broader society’s aspirations, politically.
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All the great political music was made at the height of political confrontations.
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It’s like being stung by a bee and going out and smashing up a beehive, and thinking you’ve solved the problem. There are more beehives out there; more bees will come. But they’re bees. They’re not grizzly bears.
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The most important thing for anyone, I think, is to be engaged, whether you’re an artist or a journalist is to be engaged in the process at some level.
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A nation with their freezers full are dancing in their seats, while outside another nation is sleeping in the streets.
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We’ve heard so much about the American dream: well, Trump is the American nightmare made flesh.
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You can be active with the activists or sleep in with the sleepers while you’re waiting for the Great Leap Forwards.
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I’m celebrating my love for you with a pint of beer and a new tattoo
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It would shine a torch into the dirty little corner where the BNP defecate on our democracy, and that would be much more powerful than duffing them up in the street – which Im also in favour of.
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If you thought the army was here protecting people like yourself, I’ve some news for you, we’re here to defend wealth.
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I’d like to think that in a generation or two we’ll have politicians whose life experience reflects that of the people who are voting for them.
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All the things about ‘the ugly American’ that we worry about and which the Americans see in themselves, it’s all of that. This is a politics of egotistical display.
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Britain is a great country. We can more or less say what we like, and we can walk down the street without anyone trying to kill us. I know it’s tough for some people, but generally we live in a caring society. We live in a great country, but we’re no longer a great power.
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