Marine Le Pen Quotes

I am coherent; I don't change my mind in a few days.

- Marine Le Pen

It is as a free French woman who has been able to enjoy, her whole life, the very precious freedoms fought for long and hard by our mothers and grandmothers, that I want to warn about a new form of social, human, and moral regression imposed on us by the migrant crisis.

- Marine Le Pen

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!

- Marine Le Pen

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

- Marine Le Pen

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

- Marine Le Pen

The Catholics will never like me because of my divorces.

- Marine Le Pen

What would people say if I had only asked to ban Muslim clothing? They would burn me as a Muslim hater.

- Marine Le Pen

My father was kicked out of the National Front. He does whatever he wants. It doesn't concern me anymore... I don't talk to him, and I'm not responsible for him or his inadmissible remarks.

- Marine Le Pen

Mosques where sharia law prevails - they exist in France. Refusing to see that means that we do equate Islam with Islamic fundamentalism. We have to denounce and eradicate it.

- Marine Le Pen

I cannot stand it when the French are asked in all circumstances to make sacrifices before the state cuts back on its own wasteful expenditures.

- 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

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.

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The name of our country, France, still rings out like a call to freedom.

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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?

- Marine Le Pen

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.

- Marine Le Pen

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

- Marine Le Pen

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

- 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

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

- 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

Money is one of the elements of sovereignty.

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If I can recover the sovereignty, I think Europe will change completely. It will change radically. And if I cannot the sovereignty back, then I will ask the French people to leave the E.U.

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I see no reason why France and Britain should not have excellent relations - we are old allies.

- Marine Le Pen

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.

- Marine Le Pen

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.

- Marine Le Pen

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

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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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I call for the awakening of our people's ancient soul, capable of opposing a bloodthirsty barbarism.

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Just watch the interlopers from all over the world come and install themselves in our home. They want to transform France into a giant squat.

- 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

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.

- Marine Le Pen

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.

- Marine Le Pen

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

- 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

There is, toward the Front, a suspicion of anti-Semitism, and it is totally at odds with the real danger due to mass immigration and the rise of Islamism.

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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.

- Marine Le Pen

The United Kingdom has committed the heresy of breaking the chains of the E.U. This is a signal victory for democracy. It is a slap in the face to the European system which was increasingly based on fear, blackmail, and lies.

- Marine Le Pen

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

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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.

- Marine Le Pen

The French are overwhelmingly convinced that the euro is a burden. Returning to an adapted national currency will create millions of jobs and give us back our freedom.

- Marine Le Pen

I do not stop repeating it to French Jews... Not only is the National Front not your enemy, but it is without a doubt the best shield to protect you. It stands at your side for the defense of our freedoms of thought and of religion against the only real enemy: Islamist fundamentalism.

- Marine Le Pen

It is in the interest of France that the United States and Russia speak to each other and act in good faith against the scourge of terrorism in Syria, and contribute with our country to stabilizing a region where uncontrolled migrant flows begin today.

- 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

It is right for us not to want our country transformed into a mere corridor, a giant railway station.

- Marine Le Pen

There's a number of journalists and politicians who are interested in the rise of the National Front and the huge nationalist gathering, the movements that refuse the E.U. and want to go back to a Europe of nations, free and sovereign countries. I'm here to re-educate.

- Marine Le Pen

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.

- Marine Le Pen

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.

- Marine Le Pen

I would never betray the people.

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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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What we're concerned about is massive immigration of unskilled workers, mostly from the Maghreb and Africa, which pulls down salaries in France.

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The struggle against radical Islam should be a joint struggle, and everyone should say, 'There - we are sacrificing something.'

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

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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.

- Marine Le Pen

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

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

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

- Marine Le Pen

They have acted like carnivores who used the world to enrich only themselves, and whether it's the election of Donald Trump, or Brexit, the elites have realized that the people have stopped listening to them, that the people want to determine their futures and, in a perfectly democratic framework, regain control of their destiny.

- Marine Le Pen

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

- Marine Le Pen

If there is one thing French Muslims want, it is to be rid of the daily pressures imposed on them by Islamic fundamentalists.

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

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I don't say every country has to leave the euro... But we have to leave the possibility if a country wants to leave.

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

- Marine Le Pen

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

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How can we think we are protected if terrorists can move around freely, if weapons can circulate freely?

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I chose as the campaign logo a blue rose, which means 'make possible the impossible.' I think the British with Brexit, then the Americans with the election of Donald Trump, did that: They made possible the impossible.

- Marine Le Pen

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

- Marine Le Pen

Donald Trump presented for the French an infinitely less dangerous program than that of Hillary Clinton.

- Marine Le Pen

The euro ceases to exist the moment that France leaves.

- Marine Le Pen

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.

- Marine Le Pen

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

- Marine Le Pen

I believe that all people aspire to be free.

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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.

- Marine Le Pen

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.

- Marine Le Pen

French citizenship should be either inherited or merited.

- Marine Le Pen

The French want less Europe and more France.

- Marine Le Pen

When people live on our territory and are not criminals, they do not dispute our laws or our ways of living, our customs, our values. I see no reason why we should not continue to welcome them in the French style.

- Marine Le Pen

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

- Marine Le Pen

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.

- Marine Le Pen

There are some who believe that secularism and Islam are not compatible. But Muslims should show everyone that this is not the case. It's up to them to show that you can be French and Muslim and still respect secular rules.

- Marine Le Pen

Either one is French and can vote, or one is not French and cannot vote.

- Marine Le Pen

I notice that freedom of expression of an E.U. member of Parliament who denounces the actions of ISIS allows the French government to take her to court.

- Marine Le Pen

It's a choice of civilization. I will be the president of those French who want to continue living in France as the French do.

- Marine Le Pen

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.

- Marine Le Pen

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.

- Marine Le Pen

Rejoice in the great, free emancipation of peoples.

- Marine Le Pen

What I cannot stand in the behaviour of the E.U. with regard to Great Britain is blackmail, constant threat.

- Marine Le Pen

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.

- Marine Le Pen

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

- 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

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

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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.

- Marine Le Pen

Unfettered free trade has led to a disaster.

- Marine Le Pen

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

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

- Marine Le Pen

If I were American, I'd vote everything but Hillary Clinton.

- Marine Le Pen

The political groups who have taken the responsibility to elect Mr. Macron have been discredited.

- Marine Le Pen

The Catholic religion doesn't have conspicuous symbols.

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

- Marine Le Pen

The euro is a potent tool used by Germany to engage in permanent monetary dumping.

- Marine Le Pen

Multicultural societies are multi-conflict societies.

- Marine Le Pen

I consider that France does not have to submit to the calendar of the United States, so I want France to leave the integrated command of NATO.

- Marine Le Pen

Hillary Clinton means devastation. It means world instability.

- Marine Le Pen

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.

- Marine Le Pen

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.

- Marine Le Pen

For France, anything is better than Hillary Clinton.

- Marine Le Pen

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

- Marine Le Pen

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

- Marine Le Pen

I am the president who will protect you!

- Marine Le Pen

Islamic fundamentalism is attacking us at home.

- Marine Le Pen

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

- Marine Le Pen

I am a woman, and as such, I experience the ever-increasing restrictions on our liberty in our country through the development of Islamic fundamentalism.

- 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

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

- Marine Le Pen

When the National Front was created, its main goal was against communism.

- Marine Le Pen

The euro is not a currency. It is a political weapon to force countries to implement the policies decided by the E.U. and keep them on a leash.

- Marine Le Pen

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

- Marine Le Pen

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.

- Marine Le Pen

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.

- Marine Le Pen

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

- Marine Le Pen

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

- 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

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

- Marine Le Pen

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

- Marine Le Pen

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

- Marine Le Pen

I am the candidate who defends the superiority of politics over the administration, the bureaucracy, the economy, and so I think it is politics which must decide.

- Marine Le Pen

I absolutely disagree that it was an illegal annexation: a referendum was held, and residents of Crimea chose to rejoin Russia.

- Marine Le Pen

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.

- Marine Le Pen

The United States cannot have the image of warmongers, with all the potential consequences it could have for our respective countries.

- Marine Le Pen

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

- Marine Le Pen

Let's close all the Islamist mosques.

- Marine Le Pen

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

- Marine Le Pen

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

- Marine Le Pen

I am opposed to those who have an ideological vision of immigration, and I think that, given the situation in France, it must stop.

- Marine Le Pen

When a country loses its identity, it no longer knows what it is or where it comes from and what its real worth is. So it dissolves.

- Marine Le Pen

When the people want to retake their destiny in hand, they can do it, despite this ceaseless campaign of denigration and infantilization.

- Marine Le Pen

What is the point in punishing a country?

- Marine Le Pen

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

- Marine Le Pen

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

- Marine Le Pen

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

- Marine Le Pen

I think financial markets only look after their own interests.

- Marine Le Pen

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

- Marine Le Pen

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

- Marine Le Pen

Russia is not a threat to France - why should I be hostile to Russia.

- Marine Le Pen

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

- Marine Le Pen

Women can better perceive injustice.

- Marine Le Pen

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

- Marine Le Pen

France is a very attractive place: the health care system, for example.

- Marine Le Pen

In France, we respect women: we don't beat them; we don't ask them to hide themselves behind a veil as if they were impure.

- Marine Le Pen

Frexit will be a part of my policy.

- Marine Le Pen

Fight for victory until the very last minute.

- Marine Le Pen

Politics for me started in violence.

- Marine Le Pen

Elected president of the Republic, I would immediately, and with no hesitation, carry out the battle plan against Islamist terrorism and against judicial laxity.

- Marine Le Pen

When something favors France, I say so. When it doesn't, I say so, too.

- Marine Le Pen

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

- 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

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.

- Marine Le Pen

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

- Marine Le Pen

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

- Marine Le Pen

I consider that France and the Republic were in London during the occupation and that the Vichy regime was not France.

- Marine Le Pen

The Republic is one and can't be divided: That's the Constitution! It means the Republic can't ground its action on local community criteria. Can't accept it.

- Marine Le Pen

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

- Marine Le Pen

From my own country of France, I commit to pursuing the path of liberty - to be a free people.

- Marine Le Pen

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

- 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

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.

- Marine Le Pen

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

- Marine Le Pen

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

- Marine Le Pen

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.

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Our countries have been friends dating to the very existence of the United States. France is the only power that has never been at war with the United States.

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My first act as president will be to reinstate France's borders.

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Long live the Republic, long live France.

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I recognize only one community: the national one.

- Marine Le Pen

We need a presidency which acts and protects us.

- Marine Le Pen

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

- Marine Le Pen

I fear that the migratory crisis signals the beginning of the end of women's rights.

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

- Marine Le Pen

A people decides its own destiny.

- Marine Le Pen

Look at how beautiful history is when liberty succeeds through the will of the people!

- Marine Le Pen

When you say 'radical right' in America, people think Ku Klux Klan. They think of something violent, racist.

- Marine Le Pen

Behind mass immigration, there is terrorism.

- Marine Le Pen

Jewish skullcaps are obviously not a problem in our country.

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

- Marine Le Pen

Racism must be fought - there are no two ways about it.

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The influx of migrants must be stopped.

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I think patriotism is never racism.

- Marine Le Pen

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

- Marine Le Pen

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

- Marine Le Pen