Jean-Marie Le Pen is a controversial French politician and the president of the Front National political party.

Quotes

We must tell the Algerians that it is not the case that they need France, but that France needs them. They are not a burden, and if they are for now, they will on the contrary be a dynamic part as well as the young blood of the French nation into which we will have integrated them. I claim that in the Muslim religion there is nothing, in the moral point of view, that would be incompatible with making a believing or practicing Muslim a full French citizen. Very much on the contrary, its basic principles are the same as for Christianity, which is the basis of Western civilization. On the other hand, I do not believe that there exists an Algerian race, any more than there exists a French race... I conclude: let us offer to Algerian Muslims entrance and integration in a dynamic France. Instead of telling them as we do now: "you are very expensive, you are a burden", let us tell them: "we need you, you are the youth of the nation".

-- Jean-Marie Le Pen, Journal officiel de la République française, January 28, 1958. Said when Algeria was still a part of Metropolitan France before it attained independence.

There must be an authority, and we believe that the most qualified authority in a household is the man's.

-- Jean-Marie Le Pen, La droite aujourd'hui, 1979

They [the immigrants] will ruin, invade, overflow us, sleep with our wives [or women], daughters and sons.

-- Jean-Marie Le Pen, 1982

When one is to be shown my buttocks and those of my wife, it is really that one does not have much any more of arguments to oppose to me.

-- Jean-Marie Le Pen, 1987, when a newspaper published photographs of the couple Le Pen half-naked.

The 'sidaïques¹', by breathing the virus through all their pores, put into question the equilibrium of the nation... The 'sidaïque' is contagious by his sweat, his saliva, his contact. It's a kind of leper.

-- Jean-Marie Le Pen, May 6 1987 on the TV station Antenne 2

Yes, I do believe in the inequality of races!

-- Jean-Marie Le Pen, August 31 1996.

Olympic games show clearly inequalities between the black and white
races concerning, for example, athletes, and runners in particular.
It's a fact. [...] I'm stating what I see.
[...] Egalitarianism is simply absurd.

-- Jean-Marie Le Pen, September 9 1996.

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's called a detail.

-- Jean-Marie Le Pen, December 5 1997 Munich.