12 Quotes & Sayings By Marine Le Pen

Marine Le Pen is the president of the National Front ("FN"), a French political party. A member of the European Parliament, she is also a candidate in the French presidential election, 2017. Le Pen is the daughter of Jean-Marie Le Pen, co-founder of the FN in 1972. As a young woman, Marine Le Pen was politically active in the far-right National Front party founded by her father in 1972. She was active in local politics and became one of her father's closest advisers in 1988 Read more

She left the FN in 2011 to found her own political movement, the National Rally ("Rassemblement national", RN) which has been described as "neo-fascist." Le Pen has led her party to successive electoral successes at all levels of government since 2001. In 2015 she was elected president of Alpes Maritimes, a département in southeastern France with over two million inhabitants. On 6 May 2017, she announced that she was running for president in next year's election. Le Pen is married to Louis Aliot , leader of "The New Forces" ("Les Nouveaux", formerly known as Front National).

Louis Aliot, born in 1975, is also on trial for alleged misuse of public funds on accusations that he gave his ex-girlfriend part of his salary.

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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. Marine Le Pen
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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. Marine Le Pen
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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. Marine Le Pen
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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. Marine Le Pen
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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. Marine Le Pen
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The people are rejecting so-called free trade and globalization that the elites presented as a positive thing. Marine Le Pen
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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. Marine Le Pen
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I think patriotism is never racism. Marine Le Pen
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Politics for me started in violence. Marine Le Pen
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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. Marine Le Pen
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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. Marine Le Pen