A biography for Jean-Marie Le Penhasn’t been written yet.
“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 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 Second World War claimed tens of millions of victims.”
“I'm not saying that the gas chambers didn't exist. I couldn't see them myself.”
“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.”
“In my speeches, I always condemned communism, national-socialism and fascism.”
“There is an Islamic population in France, most of which comes from the North African countries.”
“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.”
“France was an occupied country, a country that surrendered and was left without the right to choose.”
“Everyone sees drama from his own perspective.”
“Political rivals attacked me. I was savagely beaten. I was kicked in the face and I lost my eye as a result.”
“Millions also perished in the Chinese camps, and there have been terrible genocides in Cambodia and Vietnam.”
“An ancient dictum says that when Zeus wanted to destroy someone, he would first drive him mad.”
“The Vichy government was under occupation and carried out the orders of the German occupier.”
“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.”
“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.”
“My father was killed by a German mine, while I lost other relatives in Allied bombing attacks.”
“There was no reason to label us as anti-Semitic.”
“There wasn't anti-Semitism in France.”