Sammy Wilson Quotes

Samuel Wilson is a Democratic Unionist Party politician from Northern Ireland who has been the Member of Parliament for East Antrim since 2005. He served as a Member of the Legislative Assembly for Belfast East from 1998 to 2003 and for East Antrim from 2003 until 2015. He served as Lord Mayor of Belfast in 1986 / 1987 and again from June 2000 to June 2001, the first person from the DUP to hold the office. He has also served as Minister of Finance and Personnel and Minister of the Environment in the Northern Ireland Executive. He supports Eurosceptic pressure group Leave Means Leave. Wikipedia  

✵ 4. April 1953
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Famous Sammy Wilson Quotes

“Irish is a leprechaun language.”

Sammy Wilson

The Irish News (November 3, 1987)

“The GAA is the sporting wing of the IRA.”

Sammy Wilson

The Irish News (September 6, 1989)

“Northern Ireland has always been, part of Britain.”

Sammy Wilson

As quoted in Da Ali G Show https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=vc34JKvCQ3Q

“I have no regret that someone openly identified with terrorist organisations and activities meets his death the same way.”

Sammy Wilson

The Irish Times (September 24, 1988)
After the loyalist killing of Gerard Slane

“[it] shows that some loyalist paramilitaries are looking ahead and contemplating what needs to be done to maintain our separate Ulster identity - a "very valuable return to reality" he added.”

Sammy Wilson

In relation to the Ulster Defence Association (UDA) releasing a document calling for ethnic cleansing and repartition of Ireland, with the goal of making Northern Ireland wholly Protestant in 1994. Wood, Ian S. Crimes of Loyalty: A History of the UDA. Edinburgh University Press, 2006. Pages 184–185.

Sammy Wilson Quotes

“5,000 subhuman animals.”

Sammy Wilson

The News Letter (September 3, 1991)
About voters who re-elected Joe Austin of Sinn Féin

“They are poofs. I don't care if they are ratepayers. As far as I am concerned they are perverts.”

Sammy Wilson

Daily Express (June 1, 1992)
After gay rights activists had requested the use of City Hall

“Would this council be prepared to congratulate all those who have done a good job on two sides of the border?”

Sammy Wilson

Sunday World (June 15, 1991)
Reference to the loyalist murder of Sinn Féin Donegal councillor Eddie Fullerton

“Are they gay buses?”

Sammy Wilson

The Mirror https://www.thefreelibrary.com/FROM+CITYBUS+TO+PRETTY+BUS%3b+EXCLUSIVE+New+pink+vehicles+are+gay+says...-a0125781529 (December 4, 2004) <br class="br">The then MLA Sammy Wilson commenting on the re-branding of buses in greater Belfast from red to pink.

“Taigs don't pay rates.”

Sammy Wilson

The Irish Times (January 12, 2000)

“This devilish Euro maniac is doing his best to keep the United Kingdom bound by the chains of EU bureaucracy and control. It is Tusk and his arrogant EU negotiators who have fanned the flames of fear in an attempt to try and overturn the result of the referendum.”

Sammy Wilson

Donald Tusk: Special place in hell for Brexiteers without a plan https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/uk-politics-47143135 BBC News (6 February 2019) <br class="br">2010s

“Leadbelly.”

Sammy Wilson

Sunday World (January 17, 1988)

A comment about fellow Belfast councillor Alex Maskey after he was shot in the stomach by loyalist paramilitaries
1980s

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