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George Galloway
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“I travelled and spent lots of time with people in Greece, many of whom were women—some of whom were known carnally to me. I actually had sexual intercourse with some of the people in Greece. And if the British public and BBC Scotland think that's of interest they are welcome to broadcast it.”
George Galloway (born 1954) first seen 2007 wikiquote, CC BY-SA 4.0 source
Recorded in: Quoted in "George and his dragons", The Herald (Glasgow, 28 September 2007), an excerpt from David Morley's Gorgeous George: The Life and Adventures of George Galloway, London: Politicos, 2007.
“Conservative Back Bench Members have an unseemly and shabby desire to rubbish and eventually smash a section of the British work force that has served this country well. ... There are few less pleasant sights than to see well-upholstered, sleek and wealthy Conservative Members insulting a body of men who work hard for a living and who have done so for many centuries.”
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Recorded in: Speech in the House of Commons (24 May 1989), against the abolition of the National Dock Labour Board.
“All faiths must be prepared to be as rigorously tested as each other and none can expect a special hiding place behind the law.”
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Recorded in: As cited in "We ask MPs where they stand", The Independent on Sunday (11 February 1990), p. 2
“I'm arguing this should not be published, not because of the threats but because of the offence that it has caused to the majority of Muslims. They have a right to expect some genuflection towards what they feel. To publish a paperback would cause an unnecessary distress to a large and significant and vulnerable section of our society.”
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Recorded in: Commenting on The Satanic Verses controversy. As cited in "We ask MPs where they stand", The Independent on Sunday (11 February 1990), p. 2
“The Tories and their friends are laughing all the way to the bank at the disunity in Scotland. We must extend the hand of friendship to the SNP.”
George Galloway (born 1954) first seen 1992 wikiquote, CC BY-SA 4.0 source
Recorded in: Reaction to the results of the 1992 general election (10 April 1992), quoted in The Times (11 April 1992), p. 7.
“Sir, I salute your courage, your strength, your indefatigability, and I want you to know that we are with you, hatta al-nasr, hatta al-nasr, hatta al-Quds until victory, until victory, until Jerusalem.”
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Recorded in: Quoted in "George and his dragons" The Herald (Glasgow) (28 September 2007), an excerpt from David Morley's Gorgeous George: The Life and Adventures of George Galloway, London: Politico's, 2007. This source also states …
“We are being asked to sell the banner which has flown in Scotland with great success, a banner which is showing no sign of becoming unpopular.”
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Recorded in: Speech to a meeting of the Labour Party in Inverness (10 March 1995), quoted in The Times (11 March 1995) p. 8.
“I am on the anti-imperialist left.”
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“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.”
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Recorded in: Simon Hattenstone "Saddam and me", The Guardian (16 September 2002).
“[On Tony Blair and George W. Bush] They have lied to the British air force and navy when they said the battle of Iraq would be very quick and easy. They attacked Iraq like wolves. They attacked civilians. It is better for Blair and Bush to stop this crime and this catastrophe. It is time for them to return to the UN security council and give diplomacy a chance.”
George Galloway (born 1954) first seen 2003 wikiquote, CC BY-SA 4.0 source
Recorded in: Abu Dhabi TV (28 March 2003), as quoted in The Guardian (1 April 2003).
“The wolves are Bush and Blair, not the soldiers. The soldiers are lions led by donkeys, sent to kill and be killed.”
George Galloway (born 1954) first seen 2003 wikiquote, CC BY-SA 4.0 source
Recorded in: Galloway accuses PM of Iraq 'lies'", The Guardian (1 April 2003).
“[On David Blunkett] By a mile, it is the most illiberal, vindictive, biliously foaming Home Secretary of modern times. He has done more to destroy the concept of Labour being a party of equality and fairness than any other person... I hope his guide dog savages his ankles.”
George Galloway (born 1954) first seen 2003 wikiquote, CC BY-SA 4.0 source
Recorded in: Quoted in "Those we have loved and loathed", The Independent (30 December 2003).
“[Referring to the The Christian Science Monitor] This newspaper published on its front page in every country in the world that I had taken $10m from Saddam Hussein. That was a grave and serious libel...Of course the documents were a forgery and a newspaper of that importance ought to have made the effort, both morally and legally, to establish the authenticity of those documents before they published them.”
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Recorded in: Quoted in John Plunkett Galloway wins damages for Saddam slur" The Guardian (19 March 2004)
“I'm strongly against abortion. I believe life begins at conception, and therefore unborn babies have rights. I think abortion is immoral.”
George Galloway (born 1954) first seen 2004 wikiquote, CC BY-SA 4.0 source
Recorded in: Interviewed by Deborah Ross, as cited in "George Galloway: It's not easy being Gorgeous", The Independent (5 April 2004).
“How can you have a real election with hundreds of thousands of Crusader soldiers occupying the country, drawing up the electoral law, deciding who is allowed to take part in the elections, and utterly dominating the political life of the country?”
George Galloway (born 1954) first seen 2004 wikiquote, CC BY-SA 4.0 source
Recorded in: Interview on Abu Dhabi TV, (20 November 2004).
“The people who invaded and destroyed Iraq and have murdered more than a million Iraqi people by sanctions and war will burn in Hell in the hell-fires, and their name in history will be branded as killers and war criminals for all time. Fallujah is a Guernica, Falluajah is a Stalingrad, and Iraq is in flames as a result of the actions of these criminals.”
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Recorded in: Interview on Abu Dhabi TV (20 November 2004).
“If I had lost I would have been homeless, I would have had everything I possess taken from me and would have been bankrupted and forced out of public office. In those circumstances I don't feel in any way happy about the award of £150,000.”
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Recorded in: Quoted in "Galloway wins Saddam libel case" BBC News (2 December 2004)
“Oona King voted to kill a lot of women in the last few years. Many of them had much darker skins than her.”
George Galloway (born 1954) first seen 2005 wikiquote, CC BY-SA 4.0 source
Recorded in: Responding to question about challenging an MP of African heritage, at the hustings in Bow & Bethnal Green during the 2005 general election, cited in "King and Galloway clash again" Evening Standard (10 April 2005).
“Why don't you go and take some more drugs, you druggie?”
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Recorded in: Johann Hari "Eastenders in turmoil, a fatwa on Galloway, and the most dangerous campaign in Britain", The Independent (22 April 2005).
“You traduced my name around the world without ever having asked me a single question, without ever having contacted me, without ever written to me or telephoned me, without any attempt to contact me whatsoever. And you call that justice.”
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Recorded in: Galloway v the US Senate: transcript of statement", The Times (18 May 2005).
“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. I met him to try and bring about an end to sanctions, suffering and war, and on the second of the two occasions, I met him to try and persuade him to let Dr Hans Blix and the United Nations weapons inspectors back into the country - a rather better use of two meetings with Saddam Hussein than your own Secretary of State for Defense made of his.”
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Recorded in: Galloway v the US Senate: transcript of statement", The Times (18 May 2005).
“I am speaking for tens of millions, and maybe more, around the world, who know the truth about Iraq. Who know that the real criminals are in Washington. Not in the United Nations. The real criminals are in the White House, not in the Elysee Palace. The real criminals are in the Congress, not in the anti-war movement.”
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Recorded in: Interview on Abu Dhabi TV (1 June 2005).
“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. It has killed far more people than Adolf Hitler.”
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Recorded in: Interview on Abu Dhabi TV (1 June 2005).
“I can't mention, I'm sorry to say, any Arab leader... Where is the... Nasser? Where is the Arab leader who will stand up and tell these people the truth? This is what we are waiting for.”
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Recorded in: Interview on Abu Dhabi TV (1 June 2005).
“We want to make reparation to the Palestinian people for the crimes of Balfour which were committed in the building behind me, when one person, on behalf of one country, promised a second people the lands of a third people - the Palestinians.”
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Recorded in: Interview on Abu Dhabi TV (1 June 2005).
“We are determined that we should stop the privatization of basic services of the British people. We are determined to defend the liberty of the British people which is being taken away day by day under the name of anti-terrorism. Ancient freedoms, which we had for hundreds of years, are being taken away from us under the name of the war on terror, when the real big terrorists are the governments of Britain and the United States.”
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Recorded in: Interview on Abu Dhabi TV (1 June 2005).
“We have worked without rest to remove the causes of such violence from our world. 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.”
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Recorded in: Statement on the London bombings by George Galloway on behalf of Respect" Socialist Worker (7 July 2005).
“Two of your beautiful daughters are in the hands of foreigners - Jerusalem and Baghdad. The foreigners are doing to your daughters as they will.”
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“The daughters are crying for help, and the Arab world is silent. And some of them are collaborating with the rape of these two beautiful Arab daughters.”
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Recorded in: From an interview broadcast by Syrian television, as cited in "Galloway 'put troops lives at risk'", The Telegraph (3 August 2005).
“[I]t can be 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 from American hegemony.”
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Recorded in: Interview on Al Jazeera (late July 2005), as cited in "Galloway pours petrol on the flames" The Telegraph (5 August 2005).
“Some believe that those aeroplanes on September 11 came out of a clear blue sky. I believe they came out of a swamp of hatred created by us. I believe that because the total, complete unending and bottomless support for General Sharon’s crimes against the Palestinian people.”
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Recorded in: Cited by James Bone "Galloway and Hitchens get down and very dirty", The Times (15 September 2005)
“You know, Mr Hitchens, you are a court jester - not in Camelot like other miserable liberals before you, but in the court of the Bourbon Bushes. You start off being the liberal mouthpiece for one of the most reactionary governments this country has ever known and you end up a mouthpiece and apologist for these miserable malevolent incompetents who cannot even pick up the bodies of their own citizens in New Orleans.”
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Recorded in: Cited by James Bone "Galloway and Hitchens get down and very dirty", The Times (15 September 2005)
“People like Mr Hitchens are willing to fight to the last drop of other people’s blood...How I wish he would put on a tin hat and pick up a gun and go and fight himself.”
George Galloway (born 1954) first seen 2005 wikiquote, CC BY-SA 4.0 source
Recorded in: Cited by James Bone "Galloway and Hitchens get down and very dirty", The Times (15 September 2005)
“Mr Hitchens's policy has succeeded in making 10,000 new Bin Ladens.”
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Recorded in: Cited by David Usborne "Hitchens vs Galloway: The big debate", The Independent (16 September 2005).
“What you have witnessed [since Christopher Hitchens’s opposition to the 1991 invasion of Iraq] is something unique in natural history: the first ever metamorphosis of a butterfly into a slug.”
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Recorded in: Cited by David Usborne "Hitchens vs Galloway: The big debate", The Independent (16 September 2005).
“I think we have generated as much light as we are going to...And as much heat as we ought to.”
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Recorded in: Cited by David Usborne "Hitchens vs Galloway: The big debate", The Independent (16 September 2005).
“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.”
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“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.”
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Recorded in: Galloway heaps praise on Syrian regime", The Scotsman (18 November 2005).
“Syria is being threatened - because she will not betray the Palestinian resistance, because she will not betray the Lebanese resistance, Hizbullah, because she will not sign a shameful surrender-peace with General Sharon, and above all - more than any of these others - because Syria will not allow her country to be used as a military base for America to crush the resistance in Iraq.”
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Recorded in: From a lecture at the University of Damascus, as broadcast by Al-Jazeera TV (13 November 2005).
“So I say to you, citizens of the last Arab country, this is a time for courage, for unity, for wisdom, for determination, to face these enemies with the dignity your president has shown, and I believe, God willing, we will prevail and triumph, wa-salam aleikum.”
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Recorded in: From a lecture at the University of Damascus, as broadcast by Al-Jazeera TV (13 November 2005).
“This murder of Hariri was deliberately planned and executed precisely to implicate Syria and to set in train the events which have unfolded.”
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Recorded in: From a lecture delivered at the University of Damascus (13 November 2005), as cited in "Galloway heaps praise on Syrian regime", The Scotsman (18 November 2005).
“Now, would you like me to be the cat?”
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Recorded in: As cited in "Galloway 'cat' act sparks anger" BBC News (13 January 2006).
“Pipe down Mr Indignation. We'll see what the viewers thought of your double standards, your indignation about me and the aplomb with which you become a lying plutocrat in your gentleman's club.”
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Recorded in: As cited in Anita Singh, "Galloway falls out with Big Brother housemates", The Times (24 January 2006).
“I had three goals and all of them were met.”
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Recorded in: Interview in Metro (2 May 2006).
“Only a fool has no regrets and I'm not a fool.”
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Recorded in: Interview in Metro (2 May 2006).
“As for Gordon Brown - I've described him and Blair as two cheeks of the same arse.”
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Recorded in: Column published as "Rescuing something labour from the wreckage", The Guardian (9 May 2006).
“[Q:] Would the assassination of, say, Tony Blair by a suicide bomber - if there were no other casualties - be justified as revenge for the war on Iraq? [...] [A:] Yes, it would be morally justified. I am not calling for it - but if it happened it would be of a wholly different moral order to the events of 7/7. It would be entirely logical and explicable. And morally equivalent to ordering the deaths of thousands of innocent people in Iraq - as Blair did.”
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Recorded in: From an Interview in GQ magazine, as cited by Oliver Duff "Galloway says murder of Blair would be 'justified'" The Independent (26 May 2006).
“I would not support anyone seeking to assassinate the prime minister. That's why I said in the interview I would report to the authorities any such plot that I knew of. What I did make abundantly clear to Piers Morgan in the GQ interview is that I would like to see Tony Blair in front of a war crimes tribunal for sending this country to war illegally and for the appalling human consequences which resulted. That's what I will continue to press for.”
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Recorded in: Responding to criticism of his comments, as cited in "Killing Blair 'morally justifiable', says Galloway", The Guardian (Press Association copy, 26 May 2006). See for confirmation
“Israel is invading Lebanon and has killed thirty times more Lebanese civilians than have died in Israel, so it’s you who should be justifying the evident bias which is written on every line on your face, and is in every nuance of your voice, and is loaded in every question that you ask.”
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Recorded in: Interview on Sky News (6 August 2006).
“One man’s terrorist is another man’s freedom fighter. You are totally wrong in saying that in most people’s eyes Hezbollah are terrorists. In most people’s eyes Israel is a terrorist state. It’s the fact that you cannot comprehend that fact that leads to bias that runs through all of your reporting and every question that you’ve asked me in this interview!”
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Recorded in: Interview on Sky News (6 August 2006).