Quotes from Jean-Marie Le Pen

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

Everyone sees drama from his own perspective.

I have said, and I repeat, at the risk of appearing sacrilegious, that the gas chambers are a detail of the history of the Second World War.

"By analogy, if we were to develop a soccer team, then we would not invite basketball and volleyball players to the try outs. We would invite soccer players to apply."

I'm always suspicious of people who repent of other people's sins.

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.

I'm not saying that the gas chambers didn't exist. I couldn't see them myself.

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

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.

The Second World War claimed tens of millions of victims.

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

The suffering caused by the terrorists is the real torture.

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.

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

An ancient dictum says that when Zeus wanted to destroy someone, he would first drive him mad.

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.

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.

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

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

There must be an authority, and we believe that the most qualified authority in a household is the man's.

After all, you're not exactly a nation like all the other nations. You are unique, if only because you are such an ancient people, and because of the way you are spread all over the world and your obvious success in many fields.

As for me, even though I have been accused of anti-Semitism countless times, no one has ever heard me make anti-Semitic statements or engage in anti-Semitic behavior.

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

France was an occupied country, a country that surrendered and was left without the right to choose.