[Chicago politicians are already denouncing the Bank of America pledge to fund Black history programs as] miniscule. ... a poor showing for an institution of this magnitude.


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But for the first time, we haven't made a huge leap forward in sound from our last album. Fans w...
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I'm thrilled we've got a new single out, as singles were the way I first got into music as a...
ED O'BRIEN
I don't read the press, I don't watch endless music TV.
ED O'BRIEN
We're not aware of fame itself, we're not that kind of band.
ED O'BRIEN
We're not spokespeople, we're musicians.
ED O'BRIEN
But we will play 6, 7 new songs each evening, approximately a third in the concert. I think it's...
ED O'BRIEN
I think that's what helped us: confidence, respect, the desire to work hard.
ED O'BRIEN
What is so refreshing playing with Neil Finn and all his friends is these people think exactly the s...
ED O'BRIEN
Everyone who's serious about what they're doing must be in constant motion forward.
ED O'BRIEN
There is always some universal proportion, but along with that there are some places where special t...
ED O'BRIEN
Of the 25 songs we've recorded there were 24 that we wanted to have on an album. That wouldn'...
ED O'BRIEN
We don't hate the media, it's just that when there's too much of it we get bored, but it...
ED O'BRIEN
Bowie is a musician, but he works like a painter. Thom always thought that we should aspire to that.
ED O'BRIEN
We are a weird bunch, we are very disparate.
ED O'BRIEN
It is fantastic to be found in a foreign country.
ED O'BRIEN
All Americans need a sense of place. That's what makes our physical surroundings worth caring ab...
ED MCMAHON
The majority of people who buy homes in golf course communities don't play golf. Golf is way dow...
ED MCMAHON
Golf courses sell real estate and that's why they're built.
ED MCMAHON
Johnny once described our relationship by saying we were as close as two people could be without bei...
ED MCMAHON
You can grow without destroying the things that you love.
ED MCMAHON
There is no planning. On the night it is really great, it's euphoria and if it is not so great t...
ED MCMAHON
There was a time... when people didn't go out of their house on Tuesday night at eight o'clo...
ED MCMAHON
Like Venice, Italy, New Orleans is a cultural treasure. And everyone who lived in the city should be...
ED MCMAHON
It's really kind of hard to be a suburb of nothing. If you don't have a downtown, you really...
ED MCMAHON
Detroit is saying that the hydrogen vehicle is the vehicle of the future. But it's 15 years from...
ED MARKEY
The problem is, is that President Bush and the Republican leadership in the Congress have resisted a...
ED MARKEY
Well, as you know, General Motors does not make hybrids. Ford only made 4,000 hybrids last year.
ED MARKEY
Just this week, Syria broke off all relations with the United States military and the CIA.
ED MARKEY
The photographs of Iraqi prisoners being subjected to degrading and humiliating treatment by their c...
ED MARKEY
The war against terrorism is a war against those who engage in torture.
ED MARKEY
Hope is the most important four-letter word in the language.
ED MARKEY
Our nation's security, economy, and place on the world stage depends on the success our educatio...
ED MARKEY
You have to wait six months to purchase a fuel efficient automobile made from overseas.
ED MARKEY