Winston Peters

Winston Peters, 2024

Winston Raymond Peters (born April 11, 1945) is the foreign minister and Deputy Prime Minister of New Zealand. 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, but regained it in 2011.

Quotes

• 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."'^{[specific citation needed]}

• 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."^{[specific citation needed]}

• 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.^{[specific citation needed]}

• 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.^{[specific citation needed]}