Explore Quotes by Geert Wilders

Freedom is the source of human creativity and development.

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

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.

I am not a consensus politician... This is something that is really very un-Dutch.

While there are many moderate Muslims, Islam's political ideology is radical and has global ambitions.

We want to decide how we control our borders, our money, our economy, our currency.

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.

We are definitely not racists; we don't care about people's skin color.

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

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.

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

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.

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

There is a perfectly good alternative to the European Union - it is called the European Free Trade Association, founded in 1960. Switzerland, Norway, Iceland and Liechtenstein are members. E.F.T.A. stands for friendship and cooperation through free trade.

We need to stop the Islamisation of the Netherlands.

I believe we have been too tolerant of the intolerant. We should learn to become intolerant of the intolerant.

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.

Democracy on a supranational level is simply impossible. In order to have democracy, there needs to be a nation.

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.

The Dutch are still allowed to speak critically about Islam, and resistance against Islamization is not a crime.

Prosecuting me as an elected politician for expressing the opinions of my constituents is absurd.