George Galloway Quotes and Sayings - Page 1
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“Where were the calls for a no-fly zone when Israel attacked Gaza”
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“Stop invading Muslims lands! How can you expect Muslims to love you when you are forcefully occupying their lands and murdering their people?”
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“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.”
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“There are those who wrap themselves in flags and blow the tinny trumpet of patriotism as a means of fooling the people.”
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“I refused this evening at Oxford University to debate with an Israeli, a supporter of the apartheid state of Israel. The reason is simple: no recognition, no normalisation. Just boycott, divestment and sanctions, until the apartheid state is defeated. I never debate with Israelis nor speak to their media. If they want to speak about Palestine – the address is the PLO.”
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“I've never had a penny through oil deals and no one has produced a shred of evidence that I have”
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“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.”
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“George Bush doesn't represent any civilization!”
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“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.”
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“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.”
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“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.”
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“We reject this illegal, barbarous, savage state that calls itself Israel. And you have to do the same.”
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“Anyone will say anything under torture.”
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“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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“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.”
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“Hezbollah has never been a terrorist organisation!”
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“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.”
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“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.”
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“As for Gordon Brown - I've described him and Blair as two cheeks of the same arse.”
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“I was an opponent of Saddam Hussein when the British and American governments and businessmen were selling him guns and gas.”
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“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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“I saw 'New Labour'conceived, watched it gestate, witnessed its birth and growth. Now I fervently hope I will be present at its death.”
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“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.”
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“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.”
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“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.”
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“People like Mr Hitchens are ready to fight to the last drop of other people's blood, and it's utterly and completely contemptible.”
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“Mr Hitchens's policy has succeeded in making 10,000 new Bin Ladens.”
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“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.”
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