If I didn't believe that we had a chance of coming to power, then I would have focused on taking care of my three children or gardening.

The French want to regain control of their own country. They want to determine the course of their own economy and their immigration policies. They want their own laws to take precedence over those of the European Union.

Globalization has become an ideology with no constraints. And now, nations are forcing themselves back into the debate. Nations with borders we control, with people that we listen to, with real economies, not Wall Street economies, but rather factories and farmers. And this goes against this unregulated globalization, wild, savage globalization.

We want to represent all the French people with ideas that are neither left nor right: patriotism, defense of the identity and sovereignty of the people. If a person like me is described as being extreme-left and extreme-right at the same time, then that isn't far off the mark.

Xenophobia is the hatred of foreigners. I don't hate anyone.

I want to destroy the EU, not Europe! I believe in a Europe of nation-states.

The Americans are trying to expand their influence in the world, particularly in Europe. They are defending their own interests, not ours.