Jean-Marie Le Pen Quotes & Sayings

What's surprising is that the people who fought against torture here are the communists. — Jean-Marie Le Pen

The Dreyfus Affair is an exceptional case. It's true that here and there you can find some dregs of anti-Semitism, but the situation is the same in every country. After all, you're not exactly a nation like all the other nations. You are unique, if only because you are such an ancient people, and because of the way you are spread all over the world and your obvious success in many fields. But, in all honesty, anti-Semitism in France has always remained on a minimal level, at the verbal level only. It never went as far as pogroms. — Jean-Marie Le Pen

My father was killed by a German mine, while I lost other relatives in Allied bombing attacks. — Jean-Marie Le Pen

France was an occupied country, a country that surrendered and was left without the right to choose. — Jean-Marie Le Pen

O my dear parishioners, let us endeavor to get to heaven! There we shall see God. How happy we shall feel! If the parish is converted we shall go there in procession with the parish priest at the head ... We must get to heaven! What a pity it would be if some of you were to find yourselves on the other side! — Jean-Marie Le Pen

You cannot speak on behalf of a nation when you have no mandate to do so. — Jean-Marie Le Pen

The government would have preferred not to take a stand, but the constant presence of the Israeli-Arab conflict on our television screens made it an issue that could no longer be avoided. — Jean-Marie Le Pen

As for me, even though I have been accused of anti-Semitism countless times, no one has ever heard me make anti-Semitic statements or engage in anti-Semitic behavior. — Jean-Marie Le Pen

When two drivers curse each other on the road, and one of them happens to be a Jew, you can't define that as anti-Semitism. — Jean-Marie Le Pen

I have said, and I repeat, at the risk of appearing sacrilegious, that the gas chambers are a detail of the history of the Second World War ... If you take a book of a thousand pages on the Second World War, in which 50 million people died, the concentration camps occupy two pages and the gas chambers ten or 15 lines, and that's what's called a detail. — Jean-Marie Le Pen

The Vichy government was under occupation and carried out the orders of the German occupier. — Jean-Marie Le Pen

When you write a two thousand page history of the Second World War, the deportations and the concentration camps will take up five pages, and the gas chambers perhaps 20 lines. — Jean-Marie Le Pen

There is an Islamic population in France, most of which comes from the North African countries. — Jean-Marie Le Pen

The result is that you are now experiencing what we experienced in the war in Algeria: The Israeli government says that it is a victim of terrorist activity, but this activity is less visible than the military strikes. — Jean-Marie Le Pen

Marine Le Pen may want me dead, that's possible, but she must not count on my co-operation — Jean-Marie Le Pen

However, the wind only changes the picture temporarily, the substrate remains the same and sooner or later the same picture surfaces once again. — Jean-Marie Le Pen

Political rivals attacked me. I was savagely beaten. I was kicked in the face and I lost my eye as a result. — Jean-Marie Le Pen

I'm always suspicious of people who repent of other people's sins. — Jean-Marie Le Pen

Millions also perished in the Chinese camps, and there have been terrible genocides in Cambodia and Vietnam. — Jean-Marie Le Pen

The much greater crimes of the Soviet Gulags occurred over decades and cost millions of lives. — Jean-Marie Le Pen

If you take a book of a thousand pages on the Second World War, in which 50 million people died, the concentration camps occupy two pages and the gas chambers ten or 15 lines, and that's what one calls a detail. — Jean-Marie Le Pen

There was no reason to label us as anti-Semitic. — Jean-Marie Le Pen

The Second World War claimed tens of millions of victims. — Jean-Marie Le Pen

By analogy, if we were to develop a soccer team, then we would not invite basketball and volleyball players to the try outs. We would invite soccer players to apply. — Jean-Marie Le Pen

An ancient dictum says that when Zeus wanted to destroy someone, he would first drive him mad. — Jean-Marie Le Pen

There wasn't anti-Semitism in France. — Jean-Marie Le Pen

Everyone sees drama from his own perspective. — Jean-Marie Le Pen

In recent years - before the intifada - there were three or four incidents of anti-Semitism a year, and that's out of 18 million crimes and violations of the law. — Jean-Marie Le Pen

When Joan D' Arc was asked by her judges why as a Christian she did not love the British, she answered that she did love them, but she loved British in their country. In the same way, we do not hate the Turks, we love them, but in their country. — Jean-Marie Le Pen

There must be an authority, and we believe that the most qualified authority in a household is the man's. — Jean-Marie Le Pen

The suffering caused by the terrorists is the real torture. — Jean-Marie Le Pen

For some the most terrible aspect of it was the deportations, while for others it was the leveling bombings or the mass deaths by starvation and cold. — Jean-Marie Le Pen

I'm not saying that the gas chambers didn't exist. I couldn't see them myself. — Jean-Marie Le Pen

In France, at least the German occupation was not especially inhumane, even if there were a number of excesses - inevitable in a country of 550,000 square kilometres ... If the Germans had carried out mass executions across the country as the received wisdom would have it, then there wouldn't have been any need for concentration camps for political deportees. — Jean-Marie Le Pen

In my speeches, I always condemned communism, national-socialism and fascism. — Jean-Marie Le Pen

After all, you're not exactly a nation like all the other nations. You are unique, if only because you are such an ancient people, and because of the way you are spread all over the world and your obvious success in many fields. — Jean-Marie Le Pen

You must either suffer in this life or give up the hope of seeing God in Heaven. Sufferings and persecutions are of the greatest avail to us, because we can find therein a very efficient means to make atonement for our sins, since we are bound to suffer for them either in this world or in the next. — Jean-Marie Le Pen