Le Pen Quotes & Sayings

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

Pen, ink, and paper are cold vehicles for the marvellous, and a "reader" decidedly a more critical animal than a "listener. — J. Sheridan Le Fanu

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

It is my responsibility to make sure that the fear is overcome ... This attack must instead free our speech about Islamic fundamentalism. We must not be silenced. — Marine Le Pen

I genuinely did not expect more than half our nation to choose to walk away from our long-term allies into the arms of our new friends Vladimir Putin, Marine Le Pen and Donald Trump. Or that they would do so without an economic plan, a trading strategy, or a credible leader, making the average Briton's future more uncertain than any time since the Blitz. — Brian Reade

In France, when there was a war, we fought and our ancestors fought, though many had real reason to flee the Germans. — Marion Marechal-Le Pen

A form of protectionism should be enforced at national level, at least on strategic areas such as agriculture. — Marion Marechal-Le Pen

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

People have said I'm a puppet, an instrument of my grandfather, but I think they quickly realised that I'm my own person, that I have autonomy in my actions. I think they rapidly realised I could look after myself. — Marion Marechal-Le Pen

I'm fighting for Marine Le Pen to become president. — Marion Marechal-Le Pen

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

We have Trumpist (ph) tendencies in Europe. Look up Marine Le Pen in France. Look at the Five Star Movement headed by a clown by profession, Beppe Grillo, in Italy. — Lionel Barber

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

I condemn what happened in Madrid, but it is suspicious. If tomorrow there will be another bombing, in France for example, who will gain power? Of course not Jacques Chirac, but Le Pen. — Walid Jumblatt

Jean-Marie Le Pen is a holocaust denier who was convicted and fined for dismissing Nazi concentration camps as a, quote, "Detail in History." But he kept running this anti-immigrant, anti-Semitic, populist unapologetic xenophobic far right party in French politics. — Rachel Maddow

Without a pen in my hand I can't think. — John Le Carre

Le Verrier - without leaving his study, without even looking at the sky - had found the unknown planet [Neptune] solely by mathematical calculation, and, as it were, touched it with the tip of his pen! — Camille Flammarion

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

Six months after 9/11, Jean-Marie Le Pen was almost elected president of France. There were a number of leaders and a number of parties running in the French national elections that year in the spring of 2002. But it ended up being not just a shock across France, and not just a shock across Europe. But it ended up being almost a worldwide shock when in the spring of 2002, Jean-Marie Le Pen came in second in those national elections. That put him in a two-man runoff for the presidency of France, spring of 2002. — Rachel Maddow

We are not a land of Islam. In our country, we don't wear djellaba clothing, we don't wear a veil, and we don't impose cathedral-sized mosques. — Marion Marechal-Le Pen

I've been a National Front member since I was 17, and active supporter for a long time. — Marion Marechal-Le Pen

The life of a female politician makes it hard to combine personal life and work, but I think it is almost a patriotic duty to have children. — Marion Marechal-Le Pen

We will absolutely respect the law until we are in government at the national level and can change it. — Marion Marechal-Le Pen

I'm proud of the fact that Marine Le Pen in France insults me and Geert Wilders in the Netherlands calls me his opponent. The way I see it is, if these people weren't attacking me, I would be doing something wrong. — Martin Schulz

I am proud to wear the name Le Pen. — Marion Marechal-Le Pen

I'm not obsessed with the rights of women; it can be a bit excessive. I want to put men and women on an equal footing. I think we are equal but different. — Marion Marechal-Le Pen

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

Globalization means using slaves to manufacture products that are then sold to the unemployed! — Marine 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

French people should be prioritised; clandestine immigrants get 100 per cent refund on healthcare while two-thirds of French people can't afford medical help. Charity begins at home. — Marion Marechal-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

In 2012, the far-right Golden Dawn won 21 seats in Greece's parliamentary election, the right-wing Jobbik gained ground in my native Hungary, and the National Front's Marine Le Pen received strong backing in France's presidential election. Growing support for similar forces across Europe points to an inescapable conclusion: the continent's prolonged financial crisis is creating a crisis of values that is now threatening the European Union itself. — George Soros

I am happy to the spokeswoman for this French youth that tomorrow will be spearhead new hope in the shape of the National Front. — Marion Marechal-Le Pen

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

I'm always suspicious of people who repent of other people's sins. — 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

If I went into politics, it's because I grew up in a political atmosphere. — Marion Marechal-Le Pen

What unites us is an unconditional love for France. — Marion Marechal-Le Pen

for the existentialists, what generated anxiety was not the godlessness of the world, per se, but rather the freedom to choose between God and godlessness. Though freedom is something we actively seek, the freedom to choose generates anxiety. "When I behold my possibilities," Kierkegaard wrote, "I experience that dread which is the dizziness of freedom, and my choice is made in fear and trembling." Many people try to flee anxiety by fleeing choice. This helps explain the perverse-seeming appeal of authoritarian societies - the certainties of a rigid, choiceless society can be very reassuring - and why times of upheaval so often produce extremist leaders and movements: Hitler in Weimar Germany, Father Coughlin in Depression-era America, or Jean-Marie Le Pen in France and Vladimir Putin in Russia today. But running from anxiety, Kierkegaard believed, was a mistake because anxiety was a "school" that taught people to come to terms with the human condition. — Scott Stossel

I have empathy; I am humane. I understand human misery. — Marion Marechal-Le Pen

Every country in the world protects its economy except the E.U. We would restore economic sovereignty and decision-making to France. We would protect strategic industries, and we would protect vital areas such as the energy sector. But we would not cut ourselves from the world. There could still be trade. — Marion Marechal-Le Pen

Contrary to what everyone thinks, in my family, we didn't talk about politics at home. — Marion Marechal-Le Pen

Charlie Hebdo mocked everyone. They mocked the left. They mocked the right. They mocked, above all, the extreme right, the extreme right of Le Pen's. If anything could identify their politics, they were kinds of anarchists. — Scott Simon

It makes no sense economically that public money goes to help foreign workers and migrants in a region where unemployment is higher than national average. — Marion Marechal-Le Pen

We are not racists or extremists in the Front National. We are people who love our country. — Marion Marechal-Le Pen

If the elites listened, they would understand why French young people like me are joining our ranks. — Marion Marechal-Le Pen

We are not a land of Islam, and if French citizens can be Muslims, it's on the condition to submit to habits and ways of life that the Greek, Roman influence and 16 centuries of Christianity have shaped. — Marion Marechal-Le Pen

In the family, no one is ever pushed. I came to politics spontaneously; there was no obligation. It has to happen naturally. — Marion Marechal-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

In my grandfather's time, the FN was founded largely as an anti-Communist party. — Marion Marechal-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

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

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

I like photographing the people I love, the people I admire, the famous, and especially the infamous. My last infamous subject was the extreme right wing French politician Jean-Marie Le Pen. — Helmut Newton

When you're the single French person in the middle of 10 Tunisians, the majority will impose their way of life on the minority. — Marion Marechal-Le Pen

The much greater crimes of the Soviet Gulags occurred over decades and cost millions of lives. — 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

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

There wasn't anti-Semitism in France. — 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

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

Vladimir Putin mainly has friends in Europe among the extreme right, such as Marine Le Pen's Front National in France. — Garry Kasparov

The crisis in Ukraine is all the European Union's fault. Its leaders negotiated a trade deal with Ukraine, which essentially blackmailed the country to choose between Europe and Russia, — Marine Le Pen

Marine Le Pen belongs to her generation, I belong to mine. I got into politics for Marine Le Pen and with her as party leader. — Marion Marechal-Le Pen

The extremist, isolationist policies of Jean-Marie Le Pen have been rejected and crushed — Romano Prodi

There was no reason to label us as anti-Semitic. — 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

Immigration is an organized replacement of our population. This threatens our very survival. We don't have the means to integrate those who are already here. The result is endless cultural conflict. — Marine 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

Those policies [of Jean-Marie Le Pen ]I find repellent. I believe many people right across consist the world do. There is no future in that type of narrow minded racism and nationalism. — Rachel Maddow

I have no formal proof, but I dare not believe that Jean-Marie Le Pen would treat me as collateral damage in the battle he is having with the party. — Marion Marechal-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

There is solid evidence for the fact that when women speak more than 30 percent of the time, men perceive them as dominating the conversation; well, similarly, if, say, two women in a row get one of the big annual literary awards, masculine voices start talking about feminist cabals, political correctness, and the decline of fairness in judging. The 30 percent rule is really powerful. If more than one woman out of four or five won the Pulitzer, the PEN/Faulkner, the Booker - if more than one woman in ten were to win the Nobel literature prize - the ensuing masculine furore would devalue and might destroy the prize. Apparently, literary guys can only compete with each other. Put on a genuinely equal competitive footing with women, they get hysterical. — Ursula K. Le Guin

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

The sovereign people have declared they want to take back the reins of their Destiny. — Marine Le Pen

No one is attacking Islam, as such. We accept that there is a large French-born Islamic population in France who have a right to be here. The FN is not a racist or Islamophobic party. — Marion Marechal-Le Pen

I made an awful mess of my first marriage. It was hard to live with me being me. I was so abnormal. I mean, most writers struggle. I hadn't struggled. I couldn't suddenly go down to the PEN Club and behave like a normal human being, because most of those guys were struggling to make a couple of thousand pounds a year. — John Le Carre

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

We can see that immigration has become favorable terrain for the development of Islamism. — Marion Marechal-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

In my speeches, I always condemned communism, national-socialism and fascism. — 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

I believe Jean-Marie Le Pen is a man of his word, and he will not go back on his words. — Marion Marechal-Le Pen

I'm not saying that the gas chambers didn't exist. I couldn't see them myself. — 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

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

Now, there's a desire for order, authority coming from a feeling that society has gone too far to the side of individualism and liberalism. — Marion Marechal-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