Top 40 George Galloway Quotes (2025 Update)

1. “Only a fool has no regrets and I’m not a fool.”

— George Galloway

2. “Syria is lucky to have Bashar al-Assad as her President.”

— George Galloway

3. “Poor me, poor me, pour me another.”

— George Galloway

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

— George Galloway

5. “Hezbollah has never been a terrorist organisation!”

— George Galloway

6. “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

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

— George Galloway

8. “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

9. “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

10. “I was an opponent of Saddam Hussein when the British and American governments and businessmen were selling him guns and gas.”

— George Galloway

11. “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

12. “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

13. “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

14. “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

15. “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

16. “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

17. “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.”

— George Galloway

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

— George Galloway

19. “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

20. “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

21. “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

22. “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

23. “We reject this illegal, barbarous, savage state that calls itself Israel. And you have to do the same.”

— George Galloway

24. “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

25. “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

26. “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

27. “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

28. “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

29. “Where were the calls for a no-fly zone when Israel attacked Gaza.”

— George Galloway

30. “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

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

— George Galloway

32. “The big tyrants never face justice.”

— George Galloway

33. “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

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

— George Galloway

35. “Mr Hitchens’s policy has succeeded in making 10,000 new Bin Ladens.”

— George Galloway

36. “George Bush doesn’t represent any civilization!”

— George Galloway

37. “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

38. “It is only losers that are prosecuted.”

— George Galloway

39. “Anyone will say anything under torture.”

— George Galloway

40. “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

41. “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

42. “I had three goals and all of them were met.”

— George Galloway

43. “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