Quotes from Pim Fortuyn

We have a lot of guests who are trying to take over the house and the owner of the house doesn't like it.

Why they vote for me is irrelevant, but if they do, they're in safe hands.

All those who are here can stay. I don't say send them home like he does.

I am appalled by Le Pen's anti-Semitic past and feelings. A man who says the Holocaust is no more than a footnote in history is beyond my comprehension.

Le Pen is a petit bourgeois nationalist.

Le Pen is old; I'm young.

Muslims have a very bad attitude to homosexuality, they're very intolerant.

This country is bursting.

For Muslims, as a homosexual, I am less than a pig.

An imam should be able to say that homosexuals are worse than pigs. My only demand is that you mustn't incite violence.

I am a citizen of the world.

My policies are multi-ethnic and certainly not racist.

Animal welfare must be a priority, and we need to switch to less industrial production methods.

Modern society places an emphasis on individual responsibility, whereas Islam places an emphasis on collective responsibility and the family.

I have traveled a lot in the world, and wherever Islam is in charge, it's just terrible.

The whole environmental policy in the Netherlands has no substance any more.

There is tension between the values of modern society and the principles of Islam.

When I become prime minister, I'm going to buy one of those Margaret Thatcher handbags, and I'll bang it on the table and demand my money back from the government for past bad services.

What we are witnessing now is a clash of civilisations, not just between states but within them.

The biggest problem is integrating people from countries with Islamic agrarian cultures. They don't share with us the core values of modernity and think quite differently about relationships between women and men and individual responsibility.

The annual stream of tens of thousands of newcomers, who largely end up as illegal aliens, must stop. Full is full. We're living on a small piece of land here.

The Netherlands is not an immigration country. The annual stream of tens of thousands of newcomers, who largely end up as illegal aliens, must stop.

If I were living in France, I'd vote for Jacques Chirac, despite the fact that he can't seem to keep his hands out of the cash till.

Right-wing in Holland is to the Left of the Tories in England.