U2 Live From Chicago // Vertigo Tour 2005

"When I was a boy, my first impression of America was a man walking on the moon, Neil Armstrong, 1969. I thought, I thougt "These Americans are mad! They are mad". But I thought, "What can this country do? What can these people do if they put their mind to it? It’s incredible". John F. Kennedy is the one in 1963… he said, "By the end of the decade, we’re going to put a man on the moon" Well… it’s not because it was on everyone’s mind. It just was the right thing to do and it was… It’s what we’re asking now. President Bush, Prime Minister Blair, and all the other world leaders to do. We’re asking them to do something extraordinary… not put a man on the moon, more like put mankind back on Earth. We have the technology. We have the resources. We have the know-how… to end the extreme poverty… if we have the will… and I believe we have the will. Others, you know, the other civil rights movement, others ended apartheid. Others tore back the iron curtain. That’s what this generation… that’s what’s up to us… our moon shot… our putting a man on the moon, we’re going to end extreme poverty. We’re going to make poverty history. That’s what’s fallen to us to do. And I believe that’s not an impossible adventure. I believe in 50 years, they look back on this moment and they’ll say, there were some people at a time who said: "It’s not okay to have a child die for a lack of a 20 cent immunization. It’s not okay to have a child die for lack of food in his belly in the 21st century.That’s not okay anymore." Now I know you know that. But I’d like you to tell President Bush that, Prime Minister Blair that and any other politician you see. And you can do it quite easily. Just take out your cellphone. Anyone got a cellphone here? You can't get yourself with a lot of trouble with a cellphone, take it out. Cellphone. Dangerous, little devices. Turn the light off, please. So… we’re looking for a million Americans to e-mail us to join the ONE campaign, not looking for your money, looking for your voice."