George Reid Quotations

At Holyrood's official opening ceremony, Scotland's Poet Laureate Edwin Morgan told us in his poem of the same name to 'Open the Doors!' and we are doing exactly that.

Do you remember shouting at me in the Commons in the 1970s that you weren't having the likes of me breaking up Britain and destroying the working class through a Scots parliament. You are in a Scots parliament. What happened?

Andrew Carnegie has gifted progressive philanthropy to the world.

I think it has improved the safety for the public and the employees that work in this building. For the most part feedback has been positive.

And the question? I think you must go for a question, Ms Goldie.

Argentina was interested in presenting itself as a white country, ... Its ideologues and writers put a great emphasis on the yellow fever epidemic and the war, and it was feasible to pretend that the black population had simply disappeared as immigration exploded.