Emmanuel Macron Quotes
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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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The strategy we must follow is to defend the special relationship between Great Britain and Europe and, more specifically, between Europe and France.
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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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We have a great history; we have a great humanist face to put forward to the world.
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We have to provide more visibility, more certainty to the investors and reduce the cost of failure.
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I will lead a fight against Islamist terrorism at every level.
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I think when people have pudding and jobs, they vote for you.
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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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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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In a common project, we can bring together well-meaning people from the Left and the Right.
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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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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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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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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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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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We need people who dream impossible things, who maybe fail, sometimes succeed, but in any case who have that ambition.
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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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Don't leave criticism of the E.U. to those who hate it.
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Never boo or hiss at my rallies. That is for people with no hope.
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Popularity isn't an objective in itself. I'm not in this game.
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Europe and the world are waiting for us to defend the spirit of the enlightenment everywhere.
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Long live the Republic, long live France.
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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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Brexit is the other face of the refugee crisis - tensions that lead to stasis, external risks that lead to asymmetric shocks.