Top 248 Quotes & Sayings by Marine Le Pen - Page 2

I would go to the European institutions, I would demand for the French people four sovereignties: territorial - our borders; monetary and budgetary; economic; and legislative. Either the European Union says yes to me, or they would say no, and I would say to the French, there is no only other solution but to leave the E.U.

I think that each country must protect its own borders, and that is why I'm simply asking for the abolition of Schengen.

I think that in France, we should do like the French people.

The people are rejecting so-called free trade and globalization that the elites presented as a positive thing.

We are not going to welcome any more people. Stop - we are full up!

The European Union has become a prison of peoples. Each of the 28 countries that constitute it has slowly lost its democratic prerogatives to commissions and councils with no popular mandate. Every nation in the union has had to apply laws it did not want for itself.

2016 was the year the Anglo-Saxon world woke up.

I am opposed to a multicultural France. I think that those who have a different culture and who arrive in France have to submit themselves to French culture.

A national currency, with the Euro as a common currency - that wouldn't bother me.

I'm asking the Israelis to choose their nationality. It doesn't mean that if they don't choose French nationality, they have to leave.

Islamic fundamentalism is attacking us at home.

I see particular commonalities in the rise of Donald Trump and Bernie Sanders.

Frexit will be a part of my policy.

You can pass on my respects to the grand mufti, but I will not cover myself up.

I don't think that France is responsible for the Vel d'Hiv.

Unfettered free trade has led to a disaster.

The people must have the opportunity to vote for the liberation from slavery and blackmail imposed by technocrats in Brussels to return sovereignty to the country.

We will be all about the local, not the global.

For France, anything is better than Hillary Clinton.

A people decides its own destiny.

I am sure 2017 will be the year the people of continental Europe wake up.

When I was still playing with dolls, I became aware of this terrible and incomprehensible thing for me: My father was not treated the same as others; we are not treated the same as others.

I believe that all people aspire to be free.

It does our Muslim compatriots no favors to fuel suspicions and leave things unspoken.

Jeanne d'Arc was frowned upon for her masculine attire.

If there's one thing that chafes French pride, it's seeing the British steal the limelight.

Was the Soviet Union reformable? I would say no. They said, 'Okay, the Soviet Union isn't working.' They would say, 'No, it's great. We just need democracy, political pluralism, private property.' And then there was no Soviet Union. The European Union is the same.

France no longer has any borders because of the E.U.

What is the point in punishing a country?

Anything but Hillary Clinton. Because I think Hillary Clinton means war.

Russia is a European country, and so we'd better, if we want a powerful Europe, negotiate with Russia.

I think that the elites have lived too long among themselves.

I am against the policy which would promote the entry of immigrants into Europe, which cannot accept them.

I would never betray the people.

We cannot let ourselves be infantalized. We cannot let ourselves be stereotyped.

We had been told that it was not possible to leave the E.U., and the U.K. has just demonstrated that, when the people want it, we can set up the conditions to exit the E.U.

We do not want to live under the yoke of the threat of Islamic fundamentalism.

The British have chosen liberty with Brexit and can congratulate themselves every day.

The PQ is diverse and vast. It's not monolithic.

Financial globalisation and Islamist globalisation are helping each other out. Those two ideologies want to bring France to its knees.

Israel is not a European country and doesn't consider itself as such.

Hillary Clinton means devastation. It means world instability.

Honestly, the dangerous situation in which Jews in France live is such that those who walk with a kippa are in any case a minority, because they are afraid.

When, in 2015, Greece decided by referendum to reject Brussels' austerity plans, the European Union's antidemocratic response took no one by surprise: To deny the people's will had become a habit.

If you come to our country, don't expect to be taken care of, to be looked after, that your children will be educated without charge.

Without a policy restricting immigration, it becomes difficult, if not impossible, to fight against communalism and the rise of ways of life at odds with laicite - France's distinctive form of secularism - and other laws and values of the French Republic.

It's unbearable to see the people betrayed time and again by politicians who don't keep their promises and by the technocrats at the European Union.

Immigrants are illegal, since once they set foot on European soil, they have violated the law.

Loving the country, wanting to preserve the culture and identity - protecting the interests of the Americans in America, of the French in France, of the Israelis in Israel - seems to me perfectly legitimate.

You cannot force a country to do something that is against its own interests or against the democratic process.

This is the first aspiration of countries: we are the landlords in our countries so that they remain free, and we can live in security.

Brexit has really broken a taboo. The Brits have shown us that you can leave the European Union, and you can come out better.

Immigration has a huge cost on social programs, and it lowers salaries and drives up unemployment.

Money is one of the elements of sovereignty.

I think 2017 is going to be the year of the grand return of the nation-state, the control of borders and currencies.

I'm in favour of a multi-polar world. I believe that every country has the right to defend its own interests.

Saying... 'Come as you are, keep living like you do, keep your culture, and we will add all that together,' doesn't work.

Past leaders chose deregulated globalization. They said it would be happy; it turned out to be atrocious.

I think financial markets only look after their own interests.

France has been mired in people's minds for years. In reality, our children are taught that they have every reason to criticize her, to see only the darkest historical aspects.