Quotes from Pim Fortuyn


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This country is bursting.


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


We have equality of men and women in western society, whereas in Islamic culture, women are inferior to men.


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.


I'm saying we've got big problems in our cities. It's not very smart to make the problem bigger by letting in millions more immigrants from rural Muslim cultures that don't assimilate.


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 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.


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.


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


This is a full country. I think 16 million Dutchmen are about enough.


We are already overcrowded. There's no more room, and we must shut the borders.


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


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


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.


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


My policies are multi-ethnic and certainly not racist.


Moroccan boys never steal from Moroccans.


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


Le Pen is old; I'm young.


Le Pen is a petit bourgeois nationalist.