Steadily, smoking has gotten to be known to be such a killer. It makes it difficult to put your lead character with a cigarette in his mouth.

The way the law is written, I didn’t have any other choice but to plead guilty.

the historical truth and that I alone have been getting it right.

I come from a free country and I’m not going to let anybody silence me.

because of my ability to stand up to the experts … to take them all on single-handed.

I’m not a holocaust denier. Obviously, I’ve changed my views.

I made a mistake when I said there were no gas chambers at Auschwitz.

That is outstanding growth by anyone?s measure.

Of course it’s a question of freedom of speech. The law is an ass.

History is like a constantly changing tree. The more you know, the more documents become available, the more you learn, and I have learned a lot since 1989.

Of course, it is a question of freedom of speech. Obviously, you can’t trust German historians, you can’t trust Austrian historians if they are constantly writing the history with the law over their shoulder, telling...

In my view, freedom of speech means the freedom to say things to other people that they don’t want to hear. And if that causes offense to them, then that’s partly their problem and partly...

I acknowledge my guilt on this charge.

Irving has for his own ideological reasons persistently and deliberately misrepresented and manipulated historical evidence,

That was no Holocaust denial, that was only (a statement) about a part of the (Holocaust) history.

I think Austria would be very stupid, indeed, to put me in jail for several years.

The Nazis did murder millions of Jews.

applaud uncontrolled colored immigration.

Of course this trial is a question of freedom of speech.

History is like a constantly changing tree.

Smoking is just a prop or wardrobe that helps identify a character as a bad guy. They have to do whatever they can to make the audience feel that this is a despicable person who...

I have no academic qualifications whatsoever.

Without Hitler, the State of Israel probably would not exist today. To that extent he was probably the Jews’ greatest friend.