Emmanuel Macron Quotes
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A romantic or classical view of the French approach would have been to say, 'It's a French company; let no one attack it. Let's block any merger. But the reality is Alcatel-Lucent is not a French company; it's a global company. Its main markets are China and the U.S. Its ownership is foreign; most of its managers aren't French.
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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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We have a great history; we have a great humanist face to put forward to the world.
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I will lead a fight against Islamist terrorism at every level.
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I have decided to create a new political movement.
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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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My key message is be innovative, be ambitious; think global and big on day one.
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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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To think that our political organisation is immutable is the best way to hand the country over to the extremes.
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The functioning of our society is in a certain way sclerotic.
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Democratic states must have access to content exchanged between terrorists on social media and instant messaging.
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What matters to me is to find rational solutions for those that are facing difficulties so that France preserves jobs and its ability to innovate.
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I think when people have pudding and jobs, they vote for you.
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Political experience is political inefficacy.
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I want to help with Muslim integration. If you follow the line of Marine Le Pen, you create a civil war.
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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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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.
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When you discuss your steel industry with China you are credible because you are part of the E.U., not because you are just U.K. You will be completely killed otherwise. You will never be in the situation to negotiate face to face with the Chinese because your domestic market is not relevant for the Chinese in comparison with their domestic market.
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Long live the Republic, long live France.
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In a common project, we can bring together well-meaning people from the Left and the Right.
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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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Brexit is the other face of the refugee crisis - tensions that lead to stasis, external risks that lead to asymmetric shocks.
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The status quo leads to self-destruction.
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Europe and the world are waiting for us to defend the spirit of Enlightenment, threatened in so many places.