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America is not just a country, it's an idea.
I'm in love with this country called America. I'm a huge fan of America, I'm one of those annoying fans, you know the ones that read the CD notes and follow you into bathrooms and ask you all kinds of annoying questions about why you didn't live up to that ... I'm that kind of fan. I read the Declaration of Independence and I've read the Constitution of the United States, and they are some liner notes, dude.
BONO, "North and South of the River"
- Jesus never let me down
- You know Jesus used to show me the score
- Then they put Jesus in show business
- Now it's hard to get in the door.
BONO, "If God Will Send His Angels"
Don't get me too excited because I use four letter words when I get excited.
The fact is that this generation -- yours, my generation ... we're the first generation that can look at poverty and disease, look across the ocean to Africa and say with a straight face, we can be the first to end this sort of stupid extreme poverty, where in the world of plenty, a child can die for lack of food in it's belly.
Every age has its massive moral blind spots. We might not see them, but our children will.
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