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The U.S. couldn’t even get rid of Saddam Hussein. And we all know that the EU is just a passing fad. They’ll be killing each other again in less than a year. I’m sick to death of all these fascist lawsuits.

It seems the only way to gain attention today is to organize a march and protest something.

We live in ugly times.

There’s a lot of revisionist history that goes on these days about Iraq.

I’m mainstream.

It is hard to read a newspaper or watch a television newscast without encountering someone who has come up with a new ‚solution‘ to society’s ‚problems.‘

I try to read as much as I can. I try to read an informative article every day. I try to stay read up on our world issues.

I pay attention to politics and technology.

I seldom think of politics more than eighteen hours a day.

Michael Jordan changed so much in basketball, he took his power to make a difference. It’s so much going on in music right now and somebody has to make a difference.

The atom bombs are piling up in the factories, the police are prowling through the cities, the lies are streaming from the loudspeakers, but the earth is still going round the sun.

In a summer marked by instability in the Middle East and Eastern Europe, I know the world also took notice of the small American city of Ferguson, Missouri – where a young man was killed, and a community was divided. So yes, we have our own racial and ethnic tensions.

September 11 shocked many Americans into an awareness that they had better pay much closer attention to what the U.S. government does in the world and how it is perceived. Many issues have been opened for discussion that were not on the agenda before. That’s all to the good.

The most violent show on TV is the six o’clock news.

For 18 years I have resisted talking about current events. I am not going to start now.

If you’re too free, you’re like the way Hong Kong is now. It’s very chaotic.

The world is too violent right now.

I go on The Daily Beast. The Daily Beast is one of the websites that I check out.

I can’t read the newspaper without crying. I’m easily affected by horrible events, you see.

I have to admit I’ve found myself doing the same things that a lot of other rock stars do or are forced to do. Which is not being able to respond to mail, not being able to keep up on current music, and I’m pretty much locked away a lot. The outside world is pretty foreign to me.

You want to know whether we’re better off? I’ve got a little bumper sticker for you: Osama bin Laden is dead and General Motors is alive. Osama bin Laden is dead and General Motors is alive! Osama bin Laden is dead and General Motors is alive!

I truly believe that when the history books are written, our age will be remembered for three things: the war on terror, the digital revolution, and what we did – or did not do – to put the fire out in Africa. History, like God, is watching what we do.

All impeachments, I guess, are political.

It’s amazing that the amount of news that happens in the world every day always just exactly fits the newspaper.

It’s a very confusing era that we’re in.

I don’t follow politics much.

The last person I have ever criticized is an official. They have a tough job to do. Things are happening so quick.

I’m not a reality-TV kind of guy. But it’s almost like we’re living in a reality show. Every day in this country, everybody keeps worrying about the deterioration of America, and it’s like a big reality show.

I don’t even know what the issues are. I haven’t paid attention to politics in a long time. It’s actually not something that I really even enjoy. It’s way off my radar.

I live in a crazy time.

We’re news junkies in my house.

Politically, the world is so confused right now – there’s so much suffering caused by various movements by various parties and people in power in government.

In India we only read about death, sickness, terrorism, crime.