"All I gotta say is like if you put every single army and all their weapons together in like one space outside the US, the US army and the US military service, ten times the amount of what's going on in the rest of the world combined. So if you don't wanna join the army, you don't have to."

"We dont really have a fair system. Our social system doesn't work if you're poor in the US; you're dirt poor and the distribution of wealth is more than uneven. If you're poor and you get sick you have no health insurance, no financial sucurity, nothing. If that could be changed I wouldn't mind paying more tax, but I mind my taxes being spent on wars."

"We never said anything that wasn't the truth. We've always just spoken from our heart and our gut instinct. And what anyone with half a brain can understand is that this country's made up of a lot of different opinions, and that's what the country is based on. Mine just happens to be very much to the left."

"It's more of a discussion. It's not about whether who's right or wrong, it's about taking in the information and finding your own individual opinion. It's our opinion, and I think that's a very American thing to do."

[Dallas, TX Show] "This is not a red state, and this is not a blue state. This is a Green Day state.”

"You watch a journalist embedded in Iraq, and then switch the channel and see an ad for Viagra, and you end up confused. It's hard not to feel duped."

"People are starting to see that it's not what they were led to believe. So I think now in the popular culture, people are starting to get the guts to come out and declare that they oppose this war."

"If you're going to stop terrorism, you don't attack countries. You keep them from going into poverty and famine and then you relieve them of debt."

"You don't look at yourself as the greatest country in the world, but the greatest asset to the world. That's how you build a stronger country here and stronger allies, instead of people that have no respect for Western culture."

"You're the fucking leaders, you have the power. Don't let these bastards dictate the rest of the world, or dictate your own fucking life!"

"It's scary anytime you start to throw your opinion around a little bit at the end of the day. So many are afraid to talk about politics, but that's sort of the time that we're in right now."

"We have a president whose only purpose is to make himself and his friends richer."

"I think the little Bush is a bit stupid and more or less the puppet of his old man."

"It's a team of culprits," Armstrong says of the album's targets. But in conversation he singles out President Bush. "I find him more a threat to the western world than Saddam Hussein."

"My main problem with a lot of the other artists that are talking about politics is that they aren't declaring themselves as opposite to what they see. They're the equivalent of moderate candidates."

"Well, it's a culture war, and the country's divided, and there's a lot of confusion. And to be a kid growing up nowadays is pretty scary, because there are a lot of different things pulling you. And this war that's going on in Iraq that's basically to build a pipeline and put up a fucking Wal-Mart. It's a lot of information, and it's not only confusing for my kids, it's confusing for adults, too. Everybody just sort of feels like they don't know where their future is heading right now, you know?"

"We pride ourselves on being a band that's connected to politics, or helping out in any way that we can as far as people who are less fortunate than us."

"George Bush is more of a threat to the world than Saddam Hussein ever was,"

"I don't know, but I had an idea. I think how America votes on 'American Idol,' the next presidential election they should vote in the same way and have a massive TV show that's once a week that keeps you updated. ... The new way of voting. Screw singers. Let's go for the politicians this time."