Jean-Marie Le Pen Quotes

• You cannot speak on behalf of a nation when you have no mandate to do so.

  Jean-Marie Le Pen

• When you write a two thousand page history of the Second World War, the deportations and the concentration camps will take up five pages, and the gas chambers perhaps 20 lines.

  Jean-Marie Le Pen

• When two drivers curse each other on the road, and one of them happens to be a Jew, you can’t define that as anti-Semitism.

  Jean-Marie Le Pen

• When Joan D’ Arc was asked by her judges why as a Christian she did not love the British, she answered that she did love them, but she loved British in their country. In the same way, we do not hate the Turks, we love them, but in their country.

  Jean-Marie Le Pen

• What’s surprising is that the people who fought against torture here are the communists.

  Jean-Marie Le Pen

• There wasn’t anti-Semitism in France.

  Jean-Marie Le Pen

• There was no reason to label us as anti-Semitic.

  Jean-Marie Le Pen

• There is an Islamic population in France, most of which comes from the North African countries.

  Jean-Marie Le Pen

• The Vichy government was under occupation and carried out the orders of the German occupier.

  Jean-Marie Le Pen

• The suffering caused by the terrorists is the real torture.

  Jean-Marie Le Pen

• The Second World War claimed tens of millions of victims.

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• The result is that you are now experiencing what we experienced in the war in Algeria: The Israeli government says that it is a victim of terrorist activity, but this activity is less visible than the military strikes.

  Jean-Marie Le Pen

• The much greater crimes of the Soviet Gulags occurred over decades and cost millions of lives.

  Jean-Marie Le Pen

• The government would have preferred not to take a stand, but the constant presence of the Israeli-Arab conflict on our television screens made it an issue that could no longer be avoided.

  Jean-Marie Le Pen

• Political rivals attacked me. I was savagely beaten. I was kicked in the face and I lost my eye as a result.

  Jean-Marie Le Pen

• My father was killed by a German mine, while I lost other relatives in Allied bombing attacks.

  Jean-Marie Le Pen

• Millions also perished in the Chinese camps, and there have been terrible genocides in Cambodia and Vietnam.

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• In recent years – before the intifada – there were three or four incidents of anti-Semitism a year, and that’s out of 18 million crimes and violations of the law

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• In my speeches, I always condemned communism, national-socialism and fascism.

  Jean-Marie Le Pen

• If you take a book of a thousand pages on the Second World War, in which 50 million people died, the concentration camps occupy two pages and the gas chambers ten or 15 lines, and that’s what one calls a detail.

  Jean-Marie Le Pen

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Birth:	20th June, 1928
Nationality:	French
Profession:	Politician

About

Jean-Marie Le Pen was born in La Trinité-sur-Mer, Brittany, France. He is a French politician who led the National Front party from its foundation in 1972 until 2011, and a member of the Le Pen political family. He studied political science and law at Panthéon-Assas University. After receiving his law diploma, he enlisted in the Foreign Legion. In 1956, he was elected to the National Assembly as a member of Pierre Poujade's UDCA populist party. He was reelected to the National Assembly as a member of the Centre National des Indépendants et Paysans party, led by Antoine Pinay. In 1984, he won a seat in the European Parliament and has been consistently reelected since then. From 1986-1988, he served as Member of the National Assembly as a member of the National Front.

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