Emmanuel Macron Quotes
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Don't leave criticism of the E.U. to those who hate it.
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Europe and the world are waiting for us to defend the spirit of the enlightenment everywhere.
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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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We need to restore democracy and sovereignty in Europe.
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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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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 want to create a too-big-to-fail player.
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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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What we need is a common goal for more Europe.
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France has to reform, to recover, and get more competitiveness.
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Popularity isn't an objective in itself. I'm not in this game.
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Believe in individual initiatives, in courage, in risk.
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Modernity is disruptive, and I endorse that.
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Through work, education, and culture, I will give hope to our country.
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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'm not a movie star, and I don't want to become a movie star.
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France is back.
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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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If people do not believe in Europe and in the euro area, it must be dismantled.
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We need to go faster on structural reforms in France.
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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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France has to accelerate in terms of reform.
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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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If I was British, I would vote resolutely 'remain' because it's in the U.K.'s interest.