Winston Peters

Winston Raymond Peters is a New Zealand politician and the was a Minister. He is also the leader of the New Zealand First political party, which had lost its place in Parliament narrowly in the 2008 general election.

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• We have now reached the point where you can wander down Queen Street in Auckland and wonder if you are still in New Zealand or some other country.
  • 2005 speech on immigration policy, entitled "Securing Our Borders and Protecting Our Identity."'

• We are being colonised without New Zealanders having some say in the numbers of people coming in and where they are coming from. This is a deliberate policy of ethnic engineering and re-population.
  • 2005 speech on immigration policy, entitled "Securing Our Borders and Protecting Our Identity."

• I'm putting it to you and to all of my critics, if you can find any Asian leader in any Asian country of whatever political persuasion who doesn't subscribe to the immigration views of New Zealand First, then name that person now. None of you can, all the way to Turkey.
  • Interview with the 7:30 Report, ABC TV, Australia.

• A corporate raid on a country is not foreign investment. It's just a corporate raid. A corporate raid doesn't expand our wealth, our employment, our exports, is not advantageous to most economies and most economies understand that. In New Zealand we did not. Everything that came from overseas was regarded as foreign investment, when, in fact, it was often a downsizing of the operation, a break-up of the operation and a mass of sackings.
  • Interview with the 7:30 Report, ABC TV, Australia.

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• The government's lax immigration laws are changing the face of our country forever. At this rate, it won't take long for New Zealand to be unrecognisable.

• We are being dragged into the status of an Asian colony and it is time that New Zealanders were placed first in their own country.

• Something is happening to the demography of our country. Who asked you whether you wanted to Asianise New Zealand by a Napier or a Nelson each year?

• We place our country at risk by bringing in thousands of people whose views are formed by alien cultures and rigid religious practices. If immigrants are allowed to settle here, regardless of their ability or willingness to live in harmony with us, we will create a breeding ground for conflict.

• The only politician in the Western world who can talk on foreign affairs with both feet in her mouth ... thanks to her brilliant performance, New Zealand is now a staunch ally of possibly France.
  • About New Zealand Prime Minister Helen Clark.

• Atrocities are carried out on the dogs by these sadists in order to release more adrenaline in the dogs' bodies, thereby creating a more potent and flavoured meat. This abused flesh is highly valued as an aphrodisiac by these ghouls.
  • Warning about the export of dogs to some Asian countries in 2000.

• Frankly, all this immigration (to New Zealand), wholesale as it is and unparalleled anywhere in the world, has not closed the skills gap, has not increased our export base, has not increased our wealth.
  • 2003.

• There is a significant percentage of Asians in Auckland. That's my view. If you don't like it, vote for another party and let race relations go into chaos.
  • 2005.

• Smart alec, arrogant, quiche eating, chardonnay drinking, pinky finger pointing snobbery, fart blossom.
  • On big city media commentators, in 2002.