Marine Le Pen
I think patriotism is never racism.Collection: Patriotism
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.Collection: Independence
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.Collection: Freedom
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.Collection: Dating
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.Collection: Religion
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.Collection: Health
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.Collection: Dreams
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.Collection: Fear
The Catholic religion doesn't have conspicuous symbols.Collection: Religion
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.Collection: Patriotism
Wild globalisation has benefited some, but it's been a catastrophe for most.
Islamism is a monstrous totalitarian ideology that has declared war on our nation, on reason, on civilization.
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.
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.
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.
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.
Brexit has really broken a taboo. The Brits have shown us that you can leave the European Union, and you can come out better.
I believe that sovereignty is the twin sister of democracy. If there's no sovereignty, there's no democracy.
French citizenship should be either inherited or merited.
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.
I do not have the slightest bit of confidence in the European Union to protect the borders of the European Union.
Either one is French and can vote, or one is not French and cannot vote.
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.
Immigration has a huge cost on social programs, and it lowers salaries and drives up unemployment.
We are very, very far from recognising polygamy in our country, thank God.
The first obligation is to the French people and establish solidarity among our own citizens.
Politics for me started in violence.
We will be all about the local, not the global.
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.
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.
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.
Multicultural societies are multi-conflict societies.
If anything, I'm to the left of Obama.
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.
Russia is an important power upon which the U.S.A. imposed a Cold War.
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.
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.
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.
I keep wondering who defends Quebec identity: who defends sovereignty, the right of the people to express themselves freely.
France is different from the U.S.A.'s El Dorado, American Dream image.
I think France should be free, independent, and be the cultural heart of the world because those play a balance in the world.
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.
Islamist terrorism is a cancer on Islam, and Muslims themselves must fight it at our side.
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.
Voila, we're all molded by our personal paths, which forge our sensibilities.
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.
The Catholics will never like me because of my divorces.
The euro ceases to exist the moment that France leaves.
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.
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.