Emmanuel Macron
It's about our ability precisely to integrate a people and offer jobs, and that, for me, is one of the key rationales of the reforms I'm pushing, and I'm a strong believer in that when you lift barriers, when you deregulate a lot of stuff, basically you improve the equality of opportunities.Collection: Equality
Never boo or hiss at my rallies. That is for people with no hope.Collection: Hope
Our interests lie in attracting added value and talent to France as a result of Brexit, but also in having a balanced relationship with Great Britain. We must not sacrifice the short term for our bilateral relationship.Collection: Relationship
I learned the life of business, commerce - it's an art.Collection: Business
When politics is no longer a mission but a profession, politicians become more self-serving than public servants.Collection: Politics
I don't have luxurious tastes or great needs, but my independence is worth a lot to me.Collection: Independence
Believe in individual initiatives, in courage, in risk.Collection: Courage
My priority is my economy minister mandate and to create momentum.
We need people who dream impossible things, who maybe fail, sometimes succeed, but in any case who have that ambition.
The status quo leads to self-destruction.
Popularity isn't my compass. Unless it can help one to act, to be understood... that's what counts.
To create greater convergence, we need more intergration.
The refugee crisis is a challenge for the whole of Europe, and Europe - it's a very fair point to say it's not just a security issue. It's also an economic issue.
People find it difficult to accept something that is sincere and unique.
The refugee crisis shows we can't be isolated from the world's geopolitical troubles.
Consolidation means less equipment, less networks, and less jobs.
Europe and the world are waiting for us to defend the spirit of the enlightenment everywhere.
We need young Frenchmen who want to become billionaires.
I don't want to create a too-big-to-fail player.
Europe and the world are waiting for us to defend the spirit of Enlightenment, threatened in so many places.
Without investment, you cannot have jobs.
I think when people have pudding and jobs, they vote for you.
I kept trying, proposing, pushing... If you want to succeed, you cannot leave work half done, and unfortunately, many things were left half done. The choice was made not to launch a second wave of economic reforms that I was proposing.
We are a continent of refugees, and if you say we can't integrate refugees, that's not consistent with our values, even if borders cannot be wide open.
Popularity isn't an objective in itself. I'm not in this game.
I come all wreathed in a reputation the press has made for me. Judge me on my actions. That's all that counts.
You have to learn to fight for things, to bear the burden and have a life which does not in any way correspond to other peoples' lives.
Globalization can be a great opportunity.
The best way to afford a suit is to work.
I am from the Left, but I am happy to work with people from the Right.
I make no concessions to conformism.
I'm not a movie star, and I don't want to become a movie star.
A Left that does nothing achieves nothing.
The functioning of our society is in a certain way sclerotic.
We're not isolated from the world. The world knocks on our door.
I am proud of my immaturity and political inexperience.
We've created rigidities at the entrance point in artisanal occupations.
If I was British, I would vote resolutely 'remain' because it's in the U.K.'s interest.
Democratic states must have access to content exchanged between terrorists on social media and instant messaging.
Brexit is the other face of the refugee crisis - tensions that lead to stasis, external risks that lead to asymmetric shocks.
You can block a marriage, but you cannot force a marriage.
Leaving the E.U. would mean the 'Guernseyfication' of the U.K., which would then be a little country on the world scale. It would isolate itself and become a trading post and arbitration place at Europe's border.
If the U.K. wants a commercial access treaty to the European market, the British must contribute to the European budget like the Norwegians and the Swiss do. If London doesn't want that, then it must be a total exit.
To avoid the trap of Europe fragmenting on the economy, security, and identity, we have to return to the original promises of the European project: peace, prosperity and freedom. We should have a real, adult, democratic debate about the Europe we want.
Historically speaking, the French economy was largely driven by the demand side.
France has to reform, to recover, and get more competitiveness.
What we need is much more flexibility for the labour markets.
France has to accelerate in terms of reform.
If people do not believe in Europe and in the euro area, it must be dismantled.
I am not a socialist.