Quotes from Geert Wilders

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.'

My main message is that I have a problem with the Islamicisation of our societies.

Excluding certain problems from the political debate by making it a crime to discuss them won't lead to the disappearance of these concerns, let alone contribute to a solution.

Don't let anybody fool you who says Islam can be moderated. It will not be moderated in a million years.

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

Freedom is the source of human creativity and development.

Without sovereignty, a nation cannot exist. Without borders, it can't be defined or protected.

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

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

I believe the Islamic ideology is a retarded, dangerous one, but I make a distinction. I don't hate people. I don't hate Muslims.

It's not that we have two different kinds of Islam. I acknowledge the fact that we have two kinds of people. There are moderate Muslims and non-moderate Muslims. But there is really only one Islam, and this is the Islam of the life of Muhammad, of the Quran, of the Hadiths, of the Sunnah.

We don't hate Muslims, but they have to integrate.

I can't even go on a spontaneous walk or to a restaurant without armored cars and police, but there is no alternative.

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.

We need to stop the Islamisation of the Netherlands.

I don't want a wall being built around the Netherlands.

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.

The European Union cannot be compared to the United States. America is a nation, but Europe is not. Europe is a continent of many different nations with their own identities, traditions and languages. Robbing them of their national democracies does not create a European democracy - it destroys democracy in Europe.

Not all are scum, but there is a lot of Moroccan scum in Holland who makes the streets unsafe.

Immigrants have to adopt our values, not the other way around.

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

My view on Islam is that it is not so much a religion as a totalitarian political ideology with religious elements.

There is no equality between our culture and the retarded Islamic culture. Look at their views on homosexuality or women.

Stating my views on Islam has brought me to court on charges of 'group insult' and incitement to racial hatred. I am being tried for voicing opinions that I - and my constituents - consider to be the truth. I am being tried for challenging the views that the ruling establishment wants to impose on us as the truth.