Emmanuel Macron Quotes
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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.
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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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The functioning of our society is in a certain way sclerotic.
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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 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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Democratic states must have access to content exchanged between terrorists on social media and instant messaging.
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We need to restore democracy and sovereignty in Europe.
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Believe in individual initiatives, in courage, in risk.
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The status quo leads to self-destruction.
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I've taken my time. I've thought about it; I've consulted, and I've decided that we are going to create a new political movement, one that will be neither on the Right or the Left.
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Our mission... it will be difficult, it will take time, it will be demanding for all men and women... will be to act in such a way that French people of the Muslim faith are always more proud of being French than of being Muslim.
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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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Really, creation and innovation are part of the French DNA.
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Through work, education, and culture, I will give hope to our country.
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If people do not believe in Europe and in the euro area, it must be dismantled.
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The challenge is to open a new page in our political life and to take action so that everyone is able to find his or her place in France and in Europe.
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I bring the spirit of French conquest.
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France has to accelerate in terms of reform.
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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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Modernity is disruptive, and I endorse that.
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France is back.
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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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To avoid the trap of Europe fragmenting on the economy, security, and identity, we have to return to the original promises of the European project: peace, prosperity and freedom. We should have a real, adult, democratic debate about the Europe we want.