In Their Own Words: Marine Le Pen and Emmanuel Macron
Le Pen, to supporters at a rally in April, according to The Times of London "The European Union remains the best guarantee of peace on the Continent." — Mr. Macron, from his platforms website "Either you reform
and you give us back our sovereignty and independence over the currency, or I will propose that France leaves the union." — Ms.
What Le Pen proposes does not fly even for a second." — Mr. Macron, from his website "The euro
is mostly a knife stuck in our ribs to make us go where others want us to go." — Ms.
Le Pen, in Der Spiegel "We will make France a land of experimentation, where it will be simpler
and faster to experiment with new industrial solutions." — Mr. Macron, on his website Alain Delaquérière and Yonette Joseph contributed research.
Le Pen, in an interview with the German magazine Der Spiegel in 2014 "The free movement of people between European Union countries is now a reality, with undeniable gains in economic matters,
but also in culture and education or in daily life for cross-border workers." — Mr. Macron, from his platform on his website, translated from French "Just watch the interlopers from the world over come and install themselves in our home.
Le Pen, on "60 Minutes" "The French are not Islamophobic,
but radical Islam is scary." — Mr. Macron, on his website "France isn’t burkinis on the beach.