It was Diogenes who said he wasn’t a citizen of any nation, but a citizen of the world. But it took a member of the Beastie Boys to translate the case for cosmopolitanism into a political indictment of George W. Bush:

“He’s just a sick f***. I think we’d be hard-pressed to get someone worse than Bush. I think if you had to sum it up he’s an incredibly selfish man and his administration in my opinion puts Americans ahead of people in other countries.”