George Galloway Quotes (49 Quotes)

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.

I would rather be eating cheese and reading Sartre on the banks of the river Seine than eating popcorn with a born again bible-belt fundamentalist Republican administration in Crawford, Texas, execution capital of the world.

A deeply wounding dagger through my political heart

You have turned that young girl, who was a perfect angel just a few days ago, into your accomplice. You are a wicked person. You are causing absolute strife in here and you've inveigled that young girl into your wicked spell.

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.

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.

It is only losers that are prosecuted.

I am not now or ever been an oil trader and neither has anyone on my behalf. I have never seen a barrel of oil, owned one, bought one, sold one, and neither has anybody on my behalf,

I'm demanding that they charge me with contempt and with perjury, I'm demanding it.

He left me no doubt that if invaders come, they will be resisted and resisted on a very large scale, city by city, street by street, house by house, rooftop by rooftop, and a lot of blood will be shed, ... And not all of it will be Iraqi.

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 Bush doesn't represent any civilization!

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.

In this case the remedy is clear. They must charge me with perjury, and I am ready to fly to the U.S. today, if necessary, to face such a charge because it is simply false,

Charge me and I will head for the airport right now and face them down in court as I faced them down in the Senate room

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.

The press have, of course, an obligation to investigate corruption but this was a blatant attempt to create it and is completely unacceptable.

Who paid me hundreds of thousands of dollars The answer to that is nobody and if you had anybody who paid me a penny you would have produced them here today.

being cavalier with any idea of process and justice.

I did not lie under oath in front of the Senate committee.

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

Anyone will say anything under torture.

I met him to try and bring about an end to sanctions, suffering and war, and on the second occasion, I met him to try and persuade him to allow Hans Blix and U.N. inspectors back into country.

I'm really pleased and excited to be going back to America to campaign against this illegal war and occupation. And to have Jane Fonda join me is fantastic. I'll be able to get that autograph at last.

What counts is not the names on the paper what counts is Where is the money, senator Who paid me hundreds of thousands of dollars of money The answer to that is 'nobody,'

These airplanes on 9-11 may have seemed to have come out of a clear blue sky but, in fact, these monstrous mosquitoes flew out of a swamp of bitterness and hatred and anger which exists in the Muslim world (because of) the injustice of western policy,

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.

He may have signed an oil contract. It had nothing to do with me, ... I was aware he was doing extensive business with Iraq. I did not know the details of it. It was not my business.

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

I'm amazed that so many people in Canada believe they're not a part of this crime.

The big tyrants never face justice.

I'll be going there to give them hell.

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.

Tony Blair will be in a dilemma. One part of him will want me to be evicted early so I don't score another victory. On the other hand, as long as I'm in there, I'm leaving him alone.

Senator, in everything I said about Iraq, I turned out to be right and you turned out to be wrong.

Charge me, then. Charge me with perjury. I'll fly out tomorrow if you lay out these charges, and I'll have my day in court. And I'll disprove them, categorically.

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.

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.

I'm demanding to be prosecuted. I'm begging to be prosecuted for perjury.

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

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

twisted logic .

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.

Charge me with perjury and I will be on the next plane to the U.S. I'll face them in court. You cannot get clearer than that. It's put up or shut up.

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

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.

The difference is Donald Rumsfeld met him to sell him guns and give him maps,

If you had any evidence of that I had ever engaged in any actual oil transaction, if you had any evidence that anybody ever gave me any money, it would be before the public and before this (committee today),

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