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.
Jean-Marie Le Pen

An ancient dictum says that when Zeus wanted to destroy someone, he would first drive him mad.
Jean-Marie Le Pen

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.
Jean-Marie Le Pen

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.
Jean-Marie Le Pen

Everyone sees drama from his own perspective.
Jean-Marie Le Pen

France was an occupied country, a country that surrendered and was left without the right to choose.
Jean-Marie Le Pen

I'm always suspicious of people who repent of other people's sins.
Jean-Marie Le Pen

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

In my speeches, I always condemned communism, national-socialism and fascism.
Jean-Marie Le Pen

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.
Jean-Marie Le Pen

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

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

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

The much greater crimes of the Soviet Gulags occurred over decades and cost millions of lives.
Jean-Marie Le Pen

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 Second World War claimed tens of millions of victims.
Jean-Marie Le Pen

The suffering caused by the terrorists is the real torture.
Jean-Marie Le Pen

The Vichy government was under occupation and carried out the orders of the German occupier.
Jean-Marie Le Pen