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" 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. "

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" 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

You

Government

Result

" There wasn't anti-Semitism in France. "

Jean-Marie Le Pen

Anti-Semitism

France

" 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. "

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

" The Second World War claimed tens of millions of victims. "

" 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

Behavior

Engage

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

" There is an Islamic population in France, most of which comes from the North African countries. "

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

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

" 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. "

" 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. "

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

" 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. "

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

Jean-Marie Le Pen

Reason

No Reason

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

" 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. "

" 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

Face

Eye

" 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. "

" 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. "

" The Vichy government was under occupation and carried out the orders of the German occupier. "

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

" Everyone sees drama from his own perspective. "

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