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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.

Bob Geldof

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.
BOB GELDOF

Administration Thinking
You cannot even begin to understand contemporary African politics if you have not read this fascinating book
BOB GELDOF

Book Contemporary Fascinating
It’s a tragedy that modernity has released this Ebola beast into the world. It renders humans untouchable, and that’s sickening.
BOB GELDOF

Ebola Tragedy World
Well, I’m Bob and I’m an unreasonable person. And if TED is anything, it is the olympics of unreasonable people.
BOB GELDOF

Anything People Unreasonable Well
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.
BOB GELDOF

Aids Poverty Spring Trying War
It’s like you asked me about the depression thing: you grope towards an understanding of whatever it is your going through, and it’s not personal, there are forces in play around you, and you seek to understand them and that way you can go on
BOB GELDOF

Goes Personal Play Understanding
Actually, today I had to defend the Bush Administration in France again. They refuse to accept, because of their political ideology, that he has actually done more than any American President for Africa. But it’s empirically so.
BOB GELDOF

Country Done Political President
I do think I feel it but you don’t think you are cause at a certain time you are no age but you don’t think you are anything. You feel the life you have lived. I feel that. It’s been a long fifty years.
BOB GELDOF

Birthday Thinking Years
It strikes me as being morally repulsive and intellectually absurd that people die of want in a world of surplus.
BOB GELDOF

Environmental People World
Rock and Roll is instant coffee.
BOB GELDOF

Coffee Instant Rocks Roll
Music is still above all else the thing that does it for me
BOB GELDOF

Above Music Still
But I think Prozac is a lethal drug, I’ve several friends just haven’t made it by taking Prozac.
BOB GELDOF

Drug Made Thinking
So when I got to 50 I just thought, Hold on: I’m thin. I’ve got my hair. I’m well off. I survived, you know
BOB GELDOF

Hair Holding Wells
Playing live if the thing I love doing best
BOB GELDOF

Best Love Play Things
Men who are not given any voice in this because of the secret nature of the courts, what they’re left with is dressing up ridiculously, but at least using humour to try and draw attention to their kids
BOB GELDOF

Attention Dressing Humor Kids Men
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 GELDOF

People Politics Simple

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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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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