Your Love is Teaching Me

Bono has a few things to say today:

"the Bush administration has funded the most extraordinarily successful Aids programme with nearly 400,000 Africans on ARVs anti-retroviral drugs.”

"Even the most staunch critics of the administration’s aid development will concede that the president has tripled aid to Africa."

"we have denounced the Bush administration when they have made mistakes, but we’re not placarding and throwing rotten tomatoes at people who are trebling aid to Africa."

“Our critics — I’ve met them in rock’n’roll in the early years and they’re the same people: cranks carping from the sidelines. A lot of them wouldn’t know what to do if they were on the field. They’re the party who will always be in opposition so they’ll never have to take responsibility for decisions because they know they’ll never be able to implement them. We get hits from the left, we get hits from the right, but in the end, every year, the world’s poor are better off for our presence.”