Sayings
Her words, verbatim and cited. Every quotation below is sourced to a venue and date; where a line is only reported — not confirmed — it is flagged, not asserted.
“Je veux parler de ceux pour qui on est en train de faire des prières dans la rue… je suis désolée, mais pour ceux qui aiment beaucoup parler de la Seconde Guerre mondiale, s’il s’agit de parler d’occupation, on pourrait en parler, pour le coup, parce que ça c’est une occupation du territoire.”
- Context: Speech in Lyon during the FN internal campaign for the party presidency, comparing the phenomenon of Muslim street prayers to an occupation.
- Source: Speech, Lyon, 10 December 2010 (contemporaneous French press; mlyon.fr archive). The line drew national controversy; she was later acquitted of incitement charges arising from the speech. Quoted here in full context as reported — a lengthy, inflammatory passage; the site includes it because of its historical weight, not as endorsement.
“Nous sommes prêts à exercer le pouvoir si les Français nous font confiance lors de ces futures élections législatives.”
- Context: Statement the evening of the RN’s victory in the European elections and Macron’s dissolution of the National Assembly.
- Source: Statement, 9 June 2024 (journal-info.fr). Translation: “We are ready to exercise power if the French place their trust in us in these future legislative elections.”
“Que chacun soit rassuré : je ne lâcherai rien.”
- Context: Opening of her speech at the RN rally at Place Vauban, Paris, days after the 31 March 2025 conviction.
- Source: Rally speech, Paris, 6 April 2025 (documentation archive of the Métropole Rouen Normandie; contemporaneous press). Translation: “Let everyone be reassured: I will give up nothing.”
“Ce n’est pas une décision de justice, c’est une décision politique.”
- Context: Her characterization of the 31 March 2025 ruling, delivered at the same 6 April 2025 rally. Reported here strictly as her own characterization of the verdict — the court presented it as a criminal judgment.
- Source: Rally speech, Paris, 6 April 2025 (same documentation archive). Translation: “This is not a judicial decision, it is a political decision.”
“Je connais l’outrage, mais je ne connais pas le renoncement, je ne connais pas la résignation, je ne connais pas l’abandon, je ne connais pas le désespoir.”
- Context: From the 6 April 2025 rally speech, framing her response to the conviction.
- Source: Rally speech, Paris, 6 April 2025 (same documentation archive). Translation: “I know outrage, but I do not know renunciation, I do not know resignation, I do not know abandonment, I do not know despair.”
“Voilà donc qu’il faudrait m’éliminer de la vie démocratique (…) au nom d’un soi-disant trouble à l’ordre public démocratique, concept purement et simplement inventé pour l’occasion.”
- Context: Attacking the five-year ineligibility imposed on 31 March 2025, at the 6 April 2025 rally.
- Source: Rally speech, Paris, 6 April 2025 (same documentation archive). Translation: “So now I must be eliminated from democratic life (…) in the name of a so-called disturbance of democratic public order, a concept purely and simply invented for the occasion.”
“Une résistance pacifique et démocratique, populaire et patriote.”
- Context: Her call to supporters at the 6 April 2025 rally.
- Source: Rally speech, Paris, 6 April 2025 (same documentation archive). Translation: “A peaceful and democratic resistance, popular and patriotic.”
“On est chez nous !”
- Context: Not her words — a crowd chant documented at the 6 April 2025 rally and in her 2022 campaign, widely reported as the signature slogan of her supporters. Included here as a documented crowd slogan, not attributed to her as a quotation.
- Source: Reported by Le Figaro (7 April 2025 kiosque) among the rally’s documented slogans; widely reported at 2022 campaign events. Translation: “We are at home here!”
“Cette décision est une décision politique… [le tribunal] a prononcé ma mort politique.”
- Context: Her first reaction to the 31 March 2025 verdict, in a televised interview that evening — as reported by contemporaneous press. Flag: reported-not-confirmed verbatim — widely reported in French media on 31 March 2025, but this site has not verified the exact wording against a primary transcript, so it is presented with that caveat.
- Source: Reported in French press, 31 March 2025. Translation: “This decision is a political decision… [the court] has pronounced my political death.”
“Je n’ai absolument pas le sentiment d’avoir commis la moindre infraction.”
- Context: Her stated position during the appeal proceedings (2025–2026), denying criminal wrongdoing — as reported by Le Monde’s appeal coverage. Flag: reported-not-confirmed verbatim; the substance of her denial is well documented, the exact wording is as reported in press summaries.
- Source: Reported in Le Monde’s appeal-trial coverage, 2026. Translation: “I have absolutely no sense of having committed the slightest offense.”
“Nous y sommes prêts. J’appelle les Français à venir nous rejoindre pour former autour du RN une majorité au service de la seule cause qui guide nos pas : la France.”
- Context: Her post on X the evening of 9 June 2024, after the European election victory and the dissolution announcement.
- Source: Post on X (@MLP_officiel), 9 June 2024, as quoted by journal-info.fr. Translation: “We are ready. I call on the French to join us to form around the RN a majority in service of the only cause that guides our steps: France.”
“Nous sommes chez nous.”
- Context: A long-standing slogan of the National Front/RN milieu, frequently chanted at her rallies (including 2022 and the April 2025 rally). Flag: a widely reported movement slogan — documented as crowd usage, not verified as a verbatim quotation from Le Pen herself in a specific venue.
- Source: Documented crowd usage, e.g. Le Figaro (7 April 2025); widely reported at campaign events. Translation: “We are at home here.”
A note on quotation policy
Quotations on this site are verbatim in the original French, with translations supplied by the site. Only lines verified against a primary source (video, official transcript, or contemporaneous full-text reporting) are presented as her words; crowd slogans and press-reported paraphrases are labeled as such. See Methodology.
Source notes
- 2010 Lyon speech: mlyon.fr contemporaneous reporting; French press archives.
- 9 June 2024 statements: journal-info.fr (statement and X post).
- 6 April 2025 rally: documentation archive of the Métropole Rouen Normandie (doc_num.php?explnum_id=354642); Le Figaro kiosque, 7 April 2025.
- 31 March 2025 reaction and appeal denial: French press; Le Monde appeal coverage — flagged as reported-not-confirmed verbatim where noted.