Marine Le Pen Quotes

No country can decide for another county.

I am telling you, as a president of the country, I do not find it a mistake to listen to you and to respond to your requests and demands. But it is shameful and I will not, nor will ever accept to hear foreign dictations, whatever the source might be or whatever the context it came in.

We need to give the Iraqis a chance to build their own future. It should be in their hands. It must be in their hands. That is what democracy is all about. We can teach it, we can explain it, but they must want it enough to make it work for them.

For the sake of our interests, as well as of our honour and dignity, we were obliged to see that we won for our international policy the same independence that we had secured for our European policy.

People of all countries have the right to choose their own social system and road to development in the light of their national conditions and characteristics.

In a democracy the People are entitled to determine the Ends or general aims of foreign policy.

We can not want Democracy more than they [the Iraqis] do and expect to succeed.

… every nation, when able and agreed, has a right to set up over themselves any form of government which to them may appear most conducive to their common welfare.

In Vietnam also, the right of self-determination applies even if free elections turn out to be unfavorable.

...The right to self-determination refers to the right of a given population (usually a nation) to create its own future more or less free from external coercion, but within the limits of the historical realities with which it is faced.

Any nation's right to form a government and an economic system of its own choosing is inalienable.... Any nation's attempt to dictate to other nations their form of government is indefensible.

The government of Mexico and the Mexican people do not have to accept provisions that one government unilaterally wants to impose on the other.

If Hong Kong could exercise democratic self-governance under the sovereignty of China, it would not be necessary for us to take this step on the path toward independence.

Historically, we were always complaining about others interfering in our domestic and national issues.

The United Nations has no business in our elections.

There is no doubt that Iraqis, like Australians and Americans, love and desire freedom. However, if freedom doesn't mean the right to complete self-determination, unfettered by interests other than one's own, then that freedom is less than worthless - it's oppression.

Senegal needs to free itself, to rediscover its democracy.

The constitution ought to specifically state that every nation is left entirely independent and supreme in its internal affairs, such as regulating emigration and all other similar matters.

Free nations of the world cannot allow Taiwan, a beacon of democracy, to be subdued by an authoritarian China.

There is a requirement to ensure the withdrawal takes place in a civilized manner. We will be able to show the world we deserve independence and freedom.

You try not ever to be in the position to compromise by coercion on your sovereignty.

The government should not present the anomaly which it now presents—a government the freest, perhaps the most democratic in the world with reference to local and domestic matters in which you rule yourselves as fully as any people in the world, while in your foreign affairs, your relations with other countries, whether peaceful or warlike, commercial, financial, or otherwise, you may have no more voice than the people of Japan.

Sovereignty is not the birthright of a ruler. Every man, woman and child will shout 'Quit Kashmir'. The Kashmiri nation has expressed its will. I ask for a plebiscite on this question.

Well, I think both Russia and China have a very strong aversion to interference in internal affairs.

I desperately want Scotland to be an independent country. I cannot, though, sit here and tell you definitively that it will happen, and that it will happen on this timescale, because I have to respect the opinion of the people of Scotland.