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Marine Le Pen Quotes

France, land of human rights and freedoms, was attacked on its own soil by a totalitarian ideology: Islamic fundamentalism. It is only by refusing to be in denial, by looking the enemy in the eye, that one can avoid conflating issues.

– Marine Le Pen

There’s a big difference between France and the U.S. In the U.S., immigrants must work to live. In France, they’re taken care of by public finances. In France, there are millions of unemployed people already. We cannot house them, give them health care, education… finance people who keep coming and coming.

– Marine Le Pen

Politics for me started in violence.

– Marine Le Pen

We, the French, are viscerally attached to our laicite, our sovereignty, our independence, our values. The world knows that when France is attacked, it is liberty that is dealt a blow.

– Marine Le Pen

France always had this balanced position that in so many conflicts was the voice of peace. I intend to maintain that. De Gaulle was pleading for a multipolar world.

– Marine Le Pen

I would like to say that the National Front has never been anti-Semitic. Not only am I not anti-Semitic, but I have explained to my Jewish compatriots that the movement that is most able to protect them is the National Front.

– Marine Le Pen

There’s something I will say: In the U.S., people are very patriotic. Their patriotism is obvious. In France, for many years, you had to fight to be patriotic. People are pushing us from loving our own country.

– Marine Le Pen

The reality is that Islam is facing a phenomenal rise with regards to fundamentalism. It cannot control it, but what is sure is that neither can European states control and monitor the development of fundamentalist networks in their own territory.

– Marine Le Pen

French citizenship should be either inherited or merited.

– Marine Le Pen

Russia is an important power upon which the U.S.A. imposed a Cold War.

– Marine Le Pen

I do not have the slightest bit of racism in me. I do not judge people with regards to the colour of their skin, their origin, or their religion. I defend them all, because I defend French people. And, of course, I defend the interests of France, the interests of French people.

– Marine Le Pen

I do not have the slightest bit of confidence in the European Union to protect the borders of the European Union.

– Marine Le Pen

I think France should be free, independent, and be the cultural heart of the world because those play a balance in the world.

– Marine Le Pen

I am well placed to know that Le Pen is not an anti-Semite. If one considers his life seriously… a man who went to fight with the Israelis in ’56! Many times, he tried to better the party’s relationship with the Jewish community, even though I do not like the term.

– Marine Le Pen

Voila, we’re all molded by our personal paths, which forge our sensibilities.

– Marine Le Pen

I have never tried to bear a judgment against my own father because I consider that, in our European culture, one does not judge his parents. Now, I have expressed my disagreements with my father on certain points, disagreements related to the way one should express things, something that has also to do with a difference of generations.

– Marine Le Pen

I have four priorities. Give back to the French their sovereignty over the French territory, their sovereignty over the currency, their sovereignty over the economy and the law.

– Marine Le Pen

I believe that politics is a matter of person. Specifically in the Fifth French Republic. In a healthy political system, a political party should resemble its leader.

– Marine Le Pen

France is different from the U.S.A.’s El Dorado, American Dream image.

– Marine Le Pen

Islamist terrorism is a cancer on Islam, and Muslims themselves must fight it at our side.

– Marine Le Pen

If anything, I’m to the left of Obama.

– Marine Le Pen

The Catholics will never like me because of my divorces.

– Marine Le Pen

I have nothing to hide, and I call upon those who are scared by the National Front to look up the National Front’s manifesto. It’s quite easy on the Internet.

– Marine Le Pen

The question of changing the name must not be taboo. The Front National is a name that has a strong history. It represents a limit in the heads of some voters because it is still demonised.

– Marine Le Pen

It’s true that I have a strong social sensibility, because – bah, because I raised thre children on my own, and I know the difficulties that can represent. All of that makes it appear that there’s a difference between Jean-Marie Le Pen’s program and mine. But the big ideas are the same.

– Marine Le Pen

I keep wondering who defends Quebec identity: who defends sovereignty, the right of the people to express themselves freely.

– Marine Le Pen