Emmanuel Macron Quotes
- All Quotes
-
We've created rigidities at the entrance point in artisanal occupations.
-
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.
-
When politics is no longer a mission but a profession, politicians become more self-serving than public servants.
-
I think when people have pudding and jobs, they vote for you.
-
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.
-
We have a great history; we have a great humanist face to put forward to the world.
-
I will defend Europe; it is our civilisation which is at stake... I will work to rebuild ties between Europe and its citizens.
-
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.
-
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.
-
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.
-
I am a newcomer. I want to remain a newcomer. That is my DNA.
-
Popularity isn't an objective in itself. I'm not in this game.
-
I don't want to create a too-big-to-fail player.
-
I want to help with Muslim integration. If you follow the line of Marine Le Pen, you create a civil war.
-
The strategy we must follow is to defend the special relationship between Great Britain and Europe and, more specifically, between Europe and France.
-
Long live the Republic, long live France.
-
We need people who dream impossible things, who maybe fail, sometimes succeed, but in any case who have that ambition.
-
Don't leave criticism of the E.U. to those who hate it.
-
Europe and the world are waiting for us to defend the spirit of the enlightenment everywhere.
-
The refugee crisis shows we can't be isolated from the world's geopolitical troubles.
-
We have to shift the social model from a lot of formal protections toward loosening bottlenecks in the economy.
-
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.
-
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.
-
Brexit is the other face of the refugee crisis - tensions that lead to stasis, external risks that lead to asymmetric shocks.