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We have a lack of growth in Europe, in eurozone, and in France, and we are struggling hard to recover and restore this growth.
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I want to be the president of all the people of France, for the patriots facing the threat of nationalism.
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My responsibility will be to unite all the women and men ready to take on the tremendous challenges which are waiting for us, and to act.
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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.
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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.
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Even if the Brits decide to remain, we will have to avoid a contagion on other countries.
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My key message is be innovative, be ambitious; think global and big on day one.
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We are implementing an in-depth reform on labor market, not to reduce rights for workers but to provide more visibility and more efficiency to investors and employers because it's the key for job creation.
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What we need is much more flexibility for the labour markets.
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France is a strong, wealthy country.
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Political experience is political inefficacy.
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I'm a child of provincial France.
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We can't have our industry progressively destroyed by cheap Chinese imports.
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I have decided to create a new political movement.
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Under the French system, you have to take into consideration that every five years, the president is directly elected by the people. He's the one that has the legitimacy.
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I will lead a fight against Islamist terrorism at every level.
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I want to become the president of all the people of France - the president of the patriots in the face of the threat from the nationalists.
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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.
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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.
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The doctors, whether based in Brussels or Paris, draw the same conclusions and write the same prescriptions.
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If I were to reason like those who roll out red carpets, I would say we might have some repatriations from the City of London.
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I will defend Europe; it is our civilisation which is at stake... I will work to rebuild ties between Europe and its citizens.
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You can suddenly have a series of countries waking up and saying, 'I want the same status as the Brits,' which will be, de facto, the dismantling of the rest of Europe.
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The only way governments or would-be governments respond to ills these days is by seeking to lower the temperature... and that tends to mean public spending.