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Certainly, the international image of the United States today is a lot less positive than 10 years ago. And that really shouldn’t be, because you have been the victims of this awful terrorist attack, and I think America deserves the sympathy of the world.

Billy Bragg

At some point in your life you have to engage with the fact that you are part of a society.
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Education Free Important Powerful
A nation with their freezers full are dancing in their seats, while outside another nation is sleeping in the streets.
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Dancing Politics Sleep
All the great political music was made at the height of political confrontations.
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Confrontation Height Made Political
I think that ultimately Trump will lose the election and in the process destroy the Republican party – but then I’m an optimist, ha ha ha! So he might not lose. He might be in charge of the largest nuclear arsenal in the world!
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Charge Election Nuclear Party Republican Ultimately
Without accountability, there can be no freedom. I know it seems like a paradox.
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Accountability Freedom Paradox Seem
Don’t saddle me with your ideals, and spare me all your guilt. For a poet with all the answers, has never yet been built.
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Answers Guilt Poetry Saddle
I enjoyed so much working with the guys from Wilco, and riffing off of them, and having someone come up to me with ideas, because normally in the studio it’s me who has to come up with all the ideas.
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Come Guy Idea Ideas Riffing Studio
I’ve had songs written during the Falklands war, and during the first Gulf war I got letters from soldiers saying they were listening to these songs, like Island of no return.
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Country Islands Soldier Song War
What happened on September 11 wasn’t the first act of war, it was the most unspeakable act of murder and terrorism. But it was construed by a very small group of people – there is no army out there in the dark waiting to take over America.
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Army Dark Unspeakable War
You have to believe that if the majority of people had their way, they would make a society that would be fair for everyone. If you don’t believe that, and if you think that the glass is always half empty, then you’re never going to have that sensibility.
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Believe Empty Everyone Glass Sensibility Standard
If I can entertain people and get them to open up a little bit, then they’re much more conducive to any ideas I might have, whether they’re about relationships or politics. The most interesting songs, I think, are the ones where the two overlap.
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Interesting Song Thinking
Baptists burn more slowly.
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Baptists Burn More Slowly
Being spokesman for a generation is the worst job I ever had.
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Generations Jobs Worst
You can have an argument with someone who’s a sceptic. When I say ‘cynic’, I mean someone who has given up, and they want you to give up too, so it makes them feel better about themselves.
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Feel Makem Sceptic Someone Themselves
Freedom is merely privilege extended, unless enjoyed by one and all.
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Enjoyed Freedom Privilege
I was in a little punk band and we put out a few punk records that weren’t very political, at all.
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Band Political Records

Certainly, the international image of the United States today is a lot less positive than 10 years ago. And that really shouldn’t be, because you have been the victims of this awful terrorist attack, and I think America deserves the sympathy of the world.

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Certainly, the international image of the United States today is a lot less positive than 10 years ago. And that really shouldn’t be, because you have been the victims of this awful terrorist attack, and I think America deserves the sympathy of the world.

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