Emmanuel Macron Quotes
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We need to restore democracy and sovereignty in Europe.
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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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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 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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The status quo leads to self-destruction.
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Europe and the world are waiting for us to defend the spirit of the enlightenment everywhere.
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What we need is a common goal for more Europe.
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Don't leave criticism of the E.U. to those who hate it.
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Through work, education, and culture, I will give hope to our country.
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I don't want to create a too-big-to-fail player.
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Really, creation and innovation are part of the French DNA.
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France has to accelerate in terms of reform.
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Our interests lie in attracting added value and talent to France as a result of Brexit, but also in having a balanced relationship with Great Britain. We must not sacrifice the short term for our bilateral relationship.
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Modernity is disruptive, and I endorse that.
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We can't fix the real problems if we only cauterize and don't treat the roots of evil.
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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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I don't believe that killing the French model in order to become the U.K. or the United States overnight is the solution. You have a big debate on inequality there, and for our society, a lot of inequality would not be bearable.
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We need to go faster on structural reforms in France.
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France has to reform, to recover, and get more competitiveness.
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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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We should not replicate the situation where one country is in a situation to hijack the rest of Europe because they organize a referendum.
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Popularity isn't an objective in itself. I'm not in this game.
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I'm not a movie star, and I don't want to become a movie star.
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Sovereignty is not just at the national level; that's the mistake of Brexit that other people make.