We're looking at the singular condition of poverty. All the other individual problems spring from that condition... doesn't matter if it's death, aid, trade, AIDS, famine, instability, governance, corruption or war. All of that is poverty. Our problem is that… — Bob Geldof Copy Share Image
Human progress depends on unreasonable people. Reasonable people accept the world as they meet it; unreasonable people persist in trying to change it. Well, I'm Bob and I'm an unreasonable person. And if TED is anything, it is the olympics… — Bob Geldof Copy Share Image
Physically I'm tired at the end of the day and quite glad to be reading in bed by midnight — Bob Geldof Copy Share Image
It's like you asked me about the depression thing: you grope towards an understanding of whatever it is your going through, and it's not… — Bob Geldof Copy Share Image
Men who are not given any voice in this because of the secret nature of the courts, what they're left with is dressing up… — Bob Geldof Copy Share Image
And part of that is, what is the point of having children if you don't have the privilege of bringing them up? — Bob Geldof Copy Share Image
Music is what I must do, business is what I need to do and politics is what I have to do — Bob Geldof Copy Share Image
We're looking at the singular condition of poverty. All the other individual problems spring from that condition... doesn't matter if it's death, aid, trade,… — Bob Geldof Copy Share Image
So when I got to 50 I just thought, Hold on: I'm thin. I've got my hair. I'm well off. I survived, you know — Bob Geldof Copy Share Image
You cannot even begin to understand contemporary African politics if you have not read this fascinating book — Bob Geldof Copy Share Image
I was really lucky that I came to puberty at a time when music and politics were completely intertwined — Bob Geldof Copy Share Image
