Top 248 Quotes & Sayings by Marine Le Pen

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Last updated on December 3, 2024.

Marion Anne Perrine "Marine" Le Pen is a French lawyer and politician who ran for the French presidency in 2012, 2017, and 2022. A member of the National Rally, she served as its president from 2011 to 2021. She has been the member of the National Assembly for the 11th constituency of Pas-de-Calais since 2017. Le Pen has been placed as far-right on the political spectrum.

French - Politician | Born: August 5, 1968

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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.

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For the higher interest of the nation, you've got to be capable of hurting yourself.

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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.

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

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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.

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We are in a world where globalization, which is an ideology, has forgotten and put aside the people, the people's interests, aspirations, and dreams.

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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.

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I will be Madame Frexit if the European Union doesn't give us back our monetary, legislative, territorial, and budget sovereignty.

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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.

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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.

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

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France can certainly accommodate foreign people on its soil long-term, those with foreign citizenship... as long as they respect French laws and French values, which is often a problem on the immigration issue. It's not really a problem with Israel on this topic.

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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.

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The waking up of a people is historic. It shows the end of a cycle.

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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.

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Without any action, this migratory influx will be like the barbarian invasion of the 4th century, and the consequences will be the same. We must immediately stop this madness to safeguard our social pact, freedom, and identity.

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

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The euro ceases to exist the moment that France leaves.

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We're going to reserve our efforts and our national solidarity for the most humble, the most modest, and the most poor among us.

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The first obligation is to the French people and establish solidarity among our own citizens.

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

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As it happens, the National Front has never been guilty of racism.

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I think patriotism is never racism.

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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.

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I don't judge people based on their religion. But I judge them based on how they respect the French constitution.

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Wild globalisation has benefited some, but it's been a catastrophe for most.

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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.

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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.

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We have seen a major decomposition of French political life, of the old political mainstream parties, and what we see now is a real new configuration which is emerging between the patriots and the new liberals.

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Clearly, Donald Trump's victory is an additional stone in the building of a new world, destined to replace the old one.

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I believe that sovereignty is the twin sister of democracy. If there's no sovereignty, there's no democracy.

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French citizenship should be either inherited or merited.

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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.

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Politics for me started in violence.

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Fight for victory until the very last minute.

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We are very, very far from recognising polygamy in our country, thank God.

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

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

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We have to go into fundamentalist mosques; we have to stop foreign financing of Islamist groups.

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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.

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I'm a democrat. I will fight until the end to defend democracy and the will of the people.

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Do we want a multicultural society, following the model of the English-speaking world, where fundamental Islam is progressing and we see major religious claims, or do we want an independent nation, with people able to control their own destiny, or do we accept to be a region managed by the technocrats of the European Union?

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If I don't manage to negotiate with the European Union, something I wish, then I will ask the French to leave the European Union. And then you'll be able to call me Madame Frexit.

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Let's close all the Islamist mosques.

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Everyone understands the European Union is a failure. It has not kept any of its promises - in particular about prosperity, security - and, worst of all, has put us under a guardianship.

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Brexit wasn't the European people's first cry of revolt. In 2005, France and the Netherlands held referendums about the proposed European Union constitution. In both countries, opposition was massive, and other governments decided on the spot to halt the experiment for fear the contagion might spread.

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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.

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The Catholics will never like me because of my divorces.

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The influx of migrants must be stopped.

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My dear compatriots, I'm not interested in your race, your origin, your sexual orientation. What interests me is your happiness.

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It's not racist to say we can't take in the poverty of the world.

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

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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.

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

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Those who came to France came to find France, not to turn it into their country of origin. If that's what they wanted, they should've stayed in their country.

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Multicultural societies are multi-conflict societies.

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Islamism is a monstrous totalitarian ideology that has declared war on our nation, on reason, on civilization.

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There is not, and there will not be, any other laws and values in France other than French laws. We will not be going back - no withdrawing. No compromises!

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The petty logic of political parties cannot be allowed to stifle the French people's legitimate aspirations to safety and liberty.

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We have to review our foreign policy and stop rolling out the red carpet for countries we know to be funding fundamentalism: countries like Saudi Arabia and Qatar.

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Top 248 Quotes & Sayings by Marine Le Pen

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