Quote of the Week: Bono on Bill Clinton

Bill Clinton made the “Time 100” issue and what better person to write him a love note but fellow celebrity/rock star Bono?

There are professors who pretend to be populists and populists who pretend to be professors. But there have never been a head and heart so perfectly matched as the pair within William Jefferson Clinton. It’s an impossible equilibrium: wonky intellectual meets “Oh, hell” card player, oxygen and hydrogen. He defies the laws of physics as his daily exercise, but without him the universe just wouldn’t be as friendly to humans.

And this is not the first time Bono has deified Bubba.

I’m a huge fan of U2 but honestly there are times when I wish Bono would just shut the heck up.

This is how I would always like to remember U2:

Sigh …

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