Mehdi Hasan Quotes

I am proud to wear the name Le Pen.

I'm fighting for Marine Le Pen to become president.

Trump brings rhetoric and reality together in a cartoon caricature of a Republican politician that anyone can understand. That gives him a vital role in history. He is the perfect exorcist to drive a stake through the heart of the modern Republican Party.

While anti-immigrant and anti-E.U. parties across Europe may not take power anywhere in 2017, theirs is now a permanent and growing presence, leeching away support from centrist parties left and right.

The problem with UKIP and the extreme right - Mr. Le Pen, Wilders - they are really good at making an analysis of the problem. And they immediately go completely overboard in providing a solution that would never work and is morally completely unacceptable.

The French elites' strategy of trying to defeat the Le Pens by aping their rhetoric, stealing their policies, and pandering to their voters has been a political and moral failure.

Donald Trump has fundamentally realigned American politics. It's time the media acknowledge this and give him the credit he deserves.

Marine Le Pen belongs to her generation, I belong to mine. I got into politics for Marine Le Pen and with her as party leader.

The reactionary percentage of the electorate in these United States has been relatively constant since McCarthy's day; I'd estimate it as hovering around 30 percent. A minority, but one never all that enamored of the niceties of democracy - they see themselves as fighting for the survival of civilization, after all.

Populism is strong in places with weak party systems because political parties exist precisely to form governments as well as legitimate oppositions. When identity politics predominates, populists will prosper.

Terrorism and the refugee crisis have changed the political mood in the West and brought the extreme right to prominence there.

Le Pen is a petit bourgeois nationalist.

We have seen a major decomposition of French political life, of the old political mainstream parties, and what we see now is a real new configuration which is emerging between the patriots and the new liberals.

We are going through a period of profound political and economic change around the world, and American citizens showed that deep desire for change in voting to elect Donald Trump as the 45th President of the United States.

We've been very lucky to have UKIP in the U.K. If we hadn't been here, the BNP would be doing very well.

I'm choosing not to accept the Trumpification of the GOP as an irreversible fact.

When the National Front was created, its main goal was against communism.

Mr. Trump is changing American politics forever and his leadership and strength are desperately needed.

The difference between the BNP and Labour is that the BNP was always a fringe party, never a contender for power.

We will not try to out-Ukip Ukip. Labour is not going to offer false solutions, such as leaving Europe.

While Corbyn would not enjoy the comparison, he and Farage are the same beast - with very different heads.

If ever we deserved a candidate at this moment in our culture, that candidate is Donald Trump.

In many respects, David Duke was the playbook. He established the playbook by which Donald Trump ran and ultimately became - I won't even use the term - let's just say he became the occupant of the White House.

The old Republican Party is gone. It's now Trump's party.

I don't think the alt-right would call me alt-right. They call me alt-lite, usually. I just consider myself a nationalist or a traditionalist.