George Galloway Quotes & Sayings

I'm an advocate of the great Dr. Johnson, the English man of letters who said that patriotism was the last refuge of the scoundrel. — George Galloway

The only moral question with suicide bombing is who the target is. And in that sense, the suicide bomber is no different from the stealth bomber or the cruise missile. If it is targeted at civilian people, then it is morally wrong, whether done by Bush, Blair, or a suicide bomber. — George Galloway

Henry Kissinger is the greatest living war criminal in the world today, with the blood of millions of people in Vietnam and Cambodia and Laos and Chile and East Timor on his hands. He will never appear in a court or be behind bars. — George Galloway

The most foreign fighters in Iraq are wearing British and American uniforms. The level of self-delusion is bordering frankly on the racist. The vast majority of the people of Iraq are against the occupation of Iraq by the American and British forces. — George Galloway

Canada has sent an army of 1,000 soldiers to occupy the Muslim country of Afghanistan (and ships to the Persian Gulf), — George Galloway

Tony Blair will be remembered for nothing other than that he followed George W. Bush over a cliff; took the rest of us with them, and we haven't yet reached the bottom, I'm afraid. — George Galloway

It's a great myth that the British public want our soldiers to be sent into harm's way on a bogus prospectus for ignoble reasons. There is nothing patriotic about that. It is the opposite of patriotism. — George Galloway

I came to declare that I am a friend to Arabs, at a time when it is not easy to be friend to Arabs, because nowadays those who have ambitions and interests would not befriend Arab. — George Galloway

I have never solicited nor received money from Iraq for our campaign against war and sanctions. I have never seen a barrel of oil, never owned one, never bought one, never sold one. — George Galloway

'9/11' came out of a swamp of hatred created by us. — George Galloway

In the Palestinian camps in the Seventies, I fell in love with a woman fighter - now married with six kids, not mine! - and I seriously considered staying there with her. — George Galloway

All the people you have killed, all the lies you have told have come back to haunt you and the best thing the Labour Party can do is sack you tomorrow morning. — George Galloway

If you are asking did I support the Soviet Union, yes I did. Yes, I did support the Soviet Union, and I think the disappearance of the Soviet Union is the biggest catastrophe of my life. — George Galloway

It's clear enough that there was substantial fraud in Ohio, thus delivering the Electoral College vote for President Bush. — George Galloway

I'm demanding to be prosecuted. I'm begging to be prosecuted for perjury. — George Galloway

Stop invading Muslims lands! How can you expect Muslims to love you when you are forcefully occupying their lands and murdering their people? — George Galloway

Where were the calls for a no-fly zone when Israel attacked Gaza — George Galloway

As for Gordon Brown - I've described him and Blair as two cheeks of the same arse. — George Galloway

I've had more than 12,000 emails from the United States. It's not easy in the United States to find out the email address of a British parliamentarian. — George Galloway

I was an opponent of Saddam Hussein when the British and American governments and businessmen were selling him guns and gas. — George Galloway

I have met Saddam Hussein exactly the same number of times as Donald Rumsfeld met him. The difference is that Donald Rumsfeld met him to sell him guns and to give him maps the better to target those guns. — George Galloway

Only a fool has no regrets and I'm not a fool. — George Galloway

The hard left is a very small section of the British population and I myself am not hard left. I am a traditional Labour left-winger. — George Galloway

I saw 'New Labour'conceived, watched it gestate, witnessed its birth and growth. Now I fervently hope I will be present at its death. — George Galloway

I care about public perception, yes. I don't care about my enemies' perception. — George Galloway

We say here that if you fall down in the United States, the ambulance man must feel for your wallet before he feels for your pulse. — George Galloway

There are those who wrap themselves in flags and blow the tinny trumpet of patriotism as a means of fooling the people. — George Galloway

I've never had a penny through oil deals and no one has produced a shred of evidence that I have. — George Galloway

I can assure you Mr. Zureikat never gave me a penny from an oil deal, a cake deal, a bread deal or from any other deal. — George Galloway

This murder of Hariri was deliberately planned and executed precisely to implicate Syria and to set in train the events which have unfolded. — George Galloway

If there's been any use of nerve gas it's the rebels that used it. If there has been a use of chemical weapons it was Al-Qaeda that used the chemical weapons - who gave al-Qaeda the chemical weapons? Here's my theory, Israel gave them the chemical weapons. — George Galloway

People like Mr Hitchens are ready to fight to the last drop of other people's blood, and it's utterly and completely contemptible. — George Galloway

A small man intoxicated by being allowed to run around with the big aggressive powerful boys after so many years as a corduroy-clad peacenik. — George Galloway

I am an opponent of Saddam Hussein, but an opponent also, of the sanctions that have killed a million Iraqi children and an opponent of the United States' apparent desire to plunge the Middle East into a new and devastating war. — George Galloway

Some things are too important to be left to the private sector. — George Galloway

The big tyrants never face justice. — George Galloway

Syria is lucky to have Bashar al-Assad as her President. — George Galloway

Mr Hitchens's policy has succeeded in making 10,000 new Bin Ladens. — George Galloway

Even if you only counted the votes that actually made it through the hoops in order to be cast, the president was really Al Gore. — George Galloway

I make no apology for saying that in the East End of London a new party of labour, with a small L, is being born — George Galloway

George Bush doesn't represent any civilization! — George Galloway

Christianity doesn't come into it. George Bush and Tony Blair are not Christians. Religious people believe in the prophets, peace be upon them. Bush believes in the profits and how to get a piece of them. So don't ever confuse this with a war of civilizations. — George Galloway

I think that Hassan Nasrallah is the best leader in the Muslim world. — George Galloway

It is only losers that are prosecuted. — George Galloway

We argued, as did the security services in this country, that the attacks on Afghanistan and Iraq would increase the threat of terrorist attack in Britain. Tragically Londoners have now paid the price of the Government ignoring such warnings. — George Galloway

Hezbollah has never been a terrorist organisation! — George Galloway

They say that politics is show business for ugly people, but as I always crack, what would I know about that? I like a challenge — George Galloway

We reject this illegal, barbarous, savage state that calls itself Israel. And you have to do the same. — George Galloway

I had three goals and all of them were met. — George Galloway

Saddam Hussein greeted me with a handshake, which, again to my surprise, is surprisingly soft considering how many people that hand had dispatched, allegedly. I think he's quite a forbidding presence, too forbidding a presence to be charming. But he's interesting. — George Galloway

Are you an Israeli? I don't debate with Israelis. I have been misled, sorry I don't recognise Israel and I don't debate with Israelis — George Galloway

MRSA, which is a kind of super bug mutant, is killing 10,000 people a year in Britain. — George Galloway

My own experience of growing up as a Roman Catholic in Scotland has led me to fear independence in Scotland. The possibility of Scotland being a kind of Stormont is a real one. I wrote a book recently about Neil Lennon's year of living dangerously and in the course of it I had to revisit some of my own experiences. Of course, most Scottish people are not swivel-eyed, loyalist sectarians but there are a large number of them. A large six-figure number, and if I were living in Scotland as a Roman Catholic I would be worried about that. — George Galloway

I think that both men, Bush and Blair, will be damned in history. Both men have made their respective countries the two most hated countries in the world. — George Galloway

Bush, and Blair, and the prime minister of Japan, and Berlusconi, these people are criminals, and they are responsible for mass murder in the world, for the war, and for the occupation, through their support for Israel, and through their support for a globalized capitalist economic system, which is the biggest killer the world has ever known. — George Galloway

All dignified people in the world, whether Arabs or Muslims or others with dignity, are very proud of the speech made by president Bashar al-Assad a few days ago here in Damascus. For me he is the last Arab ruler, and Syria is the last Arab country. It is the fortress of the remaining dignity of the Arabs, and that's why I'm proud to be here. — George Galloway

It can be said, truly said, that the Iraqi resistance is not just defending Iraq. They are defending all the Arabs and they are defending all the people of the world against American hegemony ... It's not the Muslims who are sick. It's Bush and Blair and Berlusconi who are sick. It's not the Muslims who need to be cured. It's the imperialist countries that need to be cured. — George Galloway

I'm 51; I'm younger than Tony Blair. I don't have a dicky heart; I'm up like a broom handle in the morning. I don't drink or gamble - I'm still a catch. — George Galloway

The invasion of Lebanon by Israel .. is a monstrous injustice. I side with the resistance to that injustice. Hizbollah is leading that resistance. I do not hesitate to say .. that I glorify that resistance. I glorify the Hizbollah national resistance movement, and I glorify the leader of Hizbollah, Sheikh Sayyed Hassan Nasrallah. — George Galloway

Anyone will say anything under torture. — George Galloway

Spare me this sanctimony about politeness, please. There are millions of people in this country who hate the very word 'Thatcher' and 'Thatcherism,' which continues until this day. — George Galloway

Poor me, poor me, pour me another. — George Galloway