Emmanuel Macron Quotes
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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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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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We have a huge responsibility to make sure that Europe remains a prosperous and peaceful continent.
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We've created rigidities at the entrance point in artisanal occupations.
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Europe and the world are waiting for us to defend the spirit of Enlightenment, threatened in so many places.
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We have to shift the social model from a lot of formal protections toward loosening bottlenecks in the economy.
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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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Europe and the world are waiting for us to defend the spirit of the enlightenment everywhere.
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I don't want to create a too-big-to-fail player.
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Long live the Republic, long live France.
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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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I think when people have pudding and jobs, they vote for you.
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We need people who dream impossible things, who maybe fail, sometimes succeed, but in any case who have that ambition.
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Really, creation and innovation are part of the French DNA.
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I am not just a liberal movement. I come from the progressive Left. I am trying to refresh and counter the system.
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We need to restore democracy and sovereignty in Europe.
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We ask our companies to restructure; we ask employees to work more for less money because there is overproduction, but then we're unable to defend them from cheaper Chinese imports. We are insane.
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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 touched the limits of our political system, which pushes one to last-minute compromises. Explanations are rarely given. It plays to people's fears because it hasn't built an ideological consensus. It produces flawed solutions and too often ignores reality.
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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.
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I bring the spirit of French conquest.
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Sovereignty is not just at the national level; that's the mistake of Brexit that other people make.
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Popularity isn't an objective in itself. I'm not in this game.
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We have a great history; we have a great humanist face to put forward to the world.