Marine Le Pen Quotes

Europe is a collection of free countries.

I know enough about European politics to know you've got a lot of crazy people who make their way onto the ballot.

Of course Brexit means that something is wrong in Europe. But Brexit means also that something was wrong in Britain.

2016 was the year the Anglo-Saxon world woke up.

The argument that won the Brexit campaign is the one that said take back control... which is another way of saying we want to control our destinies again. This is an existential issue for the whole of Europe, not just for the U.K., because this sentiment is not limited to the United Kingdom.

I live in Europe and care about democracy and sovereignty of nation states there.

I plan to concentrate on helping set up a Pan-European political movement, inspired by the Athens Spring, that will work toward Europe's democratization.

Perhaps our own opposition to even the level of European integration we have now, let alone any more, is well known.

The great European dream was to diminish militant nationalism. We would all be happy Europeans together. But we are going to see the old monster of militant nationalism being awoken when people realise how little control their politicians have.

I take notice of those who have argued consistently for the modernisation of the E.U., but so many of the skeptics in Britain are just hostile to the whole European idea.

I have never written that there is a threat of fascism in America. I always considered the idea overwrought. But now I believe there really is such a threat - and it will come draped not in an American flag, but in the name of tolerance and health.

France is an old country that needs to wake up.

Certainly we've seen the enormous changes across the whole of the Middle East. The democratic genie is out of the bottle.

As for the role of France and Germany: French politics is often more self-confident then German politics due to the catastrophe in the first half of the last century. If Berlin and Paris don't agree, then it is difficult to make progress in Europe.

America's always had a real passion for lunatic movements. That's one of the things we're probably known for around the world, I would imagine.

Limitless enlargement of Europe means the death of political Europe.

Europe has just too many countries who have hated each other for too long to pull it apart and very little to hold it together.

Once you have lost control over your people, you are on the road toward a potentially democratic society.

This country is going so far right you are not even going to recognize it.

Truth is not the first casualty of war alone: it is the first casualty of populism.

There are times, perhaps once every thirty years, when there is a sea-change in politics. It then does not matter what you say or what you do. There is a shift in what the public wants and what it approves of.

History shows that populism polarizes society, weakens economies, and undermined representative democracy.

The vitality of democracy in the 1960s, raised questions about the governability of democracy in the 1970s.

The ultimate question is whether the name Donald Trump will be attached to an era - whether he will so change America that it will never be the same afterward.

Brexit is the best thing to happen for Russia, for America, for Germany, and for democracy.