Geert Wilders

I\'m very strong willed and I\'m very impatient as well.

We can never allow people who use nondemocratic means, people who use violence instead of arguments, people who use knives instead of debates, we can never allow them to set the agenda.

Israel is a lighthouse and the only democracy in a dark and tyrannical region. It\'s part of us, of our European identity.

The threats against me are not only in Holland, but outside the country as well. We are talking about very serious threats on the part of different terror groups, and when you are aware of the extent of the threats, it\'s only human to think that something will indeed happen.

Islam and freedom are not compatible.

I believe that politicians have a public trust to further debates about important issues. I firmly believe that every public debate holds the prospect of enlightenment.

On Islam, it is true that I am tough. Perhaps tougher than I should be if my only aim was to get votes.

Citizens should never allow themselves to be silenced.

Europe is my home, Europe is my continent. Europe is where we live. The European Union is a political bureaucratic organization that took away our identity and our national sovereignty. So, I would get rid of the European Union and be a nation-state again.

Dutch values are based on Christianity, on Judaism, on humanism.

I don\'t believe in political self-censorship.

I have said what millions of people think and find. It is a travesty that I have to defend myself in court for this.

In referendums in 2005, the Dutch and the French electorates rejected the European Constitution, which aimed to turn the E.U. into a genuine state. But Brussels refused to take no for an answer. It went ahead with its plans for a constitutional treaty, notwithstanding the people\'s opposition. Brussels thinks it knows better than the people.

Islam is the Trojan Horse in Europe.

I\'m very afraid of being linked with the wrong, rightist, Fascist groups.

The Netherlands has been too tolerant to intolerant people for too long.

Not all Muslims are terrorists, but almost all terrorists are Muslims.

Festering political problems do not go away simply because they are kept in a dark corner.

I am not ashamed to say that our culture is far better than the Islamic culture, which is a culture of barbarism.

Cultural relativism has made it so people don\'t know who they are anymore.

I don\'t want to get rid of the typical Dutch tolerance.

We want to make our own Netherlands, to close our borders and to keep all that money that we give to the foreigners, there is billions, to Africa for development, to Brussels, to Greece, to asylum seekers in the Netherlands, we will stop that and give all that money to the Dutch people living in the Netherlands.

Why can\'t you ask people if they want more or fewer Germans or Belgians or Moroccans?

If I stop or moderate my voice, people who use or threaten violence against democracies would win. I will never let them win.

We want the Netherlands to leave the E.U., join EFTA and, like Switzerland, negotiate bilateral trade agreements with the E.U. and the rest of the world.

We should not import a retarded political Islamic society into our country.

I make a clear distinction between the people and the ideology, between Muslims and Islam, recognizing that there are many moderate Muslims.

People and nations wither away without the freedom to question what is presented to them as the truth.

I can\'t set one foot out of my house or anywhere in the world without security.

We should wake up and tell ourselves: You\'re not a xenophobe, you\'re not a racist, you\'re not a crazy guy if you say, \'My culture is better than yours.\'