I never met a politician who didn't want to be a guitar player in a rock band. I've got the opportunity to say what I believe in.
Billy BraggA nation with their freezers full are dancing in their seats, while outside another nation is sleeping in the streets.
Billy BraggGoing for constant growth is not actually delivering a decent standard of living and the prospect of your children having a better life than you do. That is the key thing that politics needs to deliver: a better life for your children. That's why people are taking their lives in their hands and crossing the Mediterranean and the English Channel.
Billy BraggWe've heard so much about the American dream: well, Trump is the American nightmare made flesh. All the things about 'the ugly American' that we worry about and which the Americans see in themselves, it's all of that. This is a politics of egotistical display.
Billy BraggOur neighbors shake their heads And take their valuables inside While my countrymen piss in the fountains To express their national pride.
Billy BraggWhat 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. It's like being stung by a bee and going out and smashing up a beehive, and thinking you've solved the problem. There are more beehives out there; more bees will come. But they're bees. They're not grizzly bears.
Billy Bragg