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.
BOB GELDOFActually, 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.
More Bob Geldof Quotes
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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.
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Music can’t change the world.
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Find inner peace? I looked; it wasn’t there.
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What’s the point in having a company of secretaries?
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I’d always thought the Rats were good fun, but one of the very nice things about being of Saga age is that I can actually look back and think,
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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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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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Our problem is that everybody tries to heal each of the individual aspects of poverty, not poverty itself.
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It’s a tragedy that modernity has released this Ebola beast into the world. It renders humans untouchable, and that’s sickening.
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Blair has called Africa ‘a scar on our conscience’. It is more. It is the gaping wound of the world’s soul.
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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 still above all else the thing that does it for me
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And whereas women had to fight to find their way into the workforce, men are now fighting to reclaim their place in the family structure.
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Playing live if the thing I love doing best
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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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