Francois Hollande Quotes
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What the French want is coherence, stability and justice. If I am in a favorable position today, it's because my fellow citizens want to make the effort to straighten out the country, and at the same time they want it to be just and equitable.
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The British have been particularly shy about the issues of financial regulation, and attentive only to the interests of the City - hence their reluctance to see the introduction of a tax on financial transactions and tax harmonisation in Europe.
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I am for a clear distinction between public and private life. I believe private matters should be regulated in private and I have asked those close to me to respect this.
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My goal is to put France back on its feet. I have to put this country back on its feet.
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Whatever happened during the French presidential campaign will leave no hard feelings. I perfectly understand why Angela Merkel supported Nicolas Sarkozy because of the action they have taken together, even though I have questioned its results, and because of their shared political sensibility.
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ISIL struck France because it is 'free' and 'the nation of human rights'. This is not a war of civilisation, as these assassins don't have any. This is a war against the jihadist menace that threatens not just France.
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Transatlantic links are very important.
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My real adversary has no name, no face, no party. It will never be elected, yet it governs - the adversary is the world of finance.
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I will not give way because too many previous governments have backed down.
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Europe needs an engine, and the Franco-German motor has provided that when the two nations have converged on important topics during critical periods. But that partnership shouldn't be a directorate for other EU members.
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Europe must be understood and controlled by its citizens.
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There's always a risk when the candidate becomes president: Will he deliver what is expected of him?
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I must demonstrate I'm closer to people - a simpler, calmer presence, yet someone who can also make decisions and obtain promised results.
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Private life is always, at certain times, a challenge.
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France needs to improve training and education and the level of skills of its workforce.
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The partnerships between Schmidt and Giscard, Kohl and Mitterrand, and even between Chirac and Schroeder, have proved that political differences do not mean that we cannot work together.
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Be happy, be proud, be generous, be respectful, be proud to be French citizens.
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Calling into question the Touquet deal on the pretext that Britain has voted for Brexit and will have to start negotiations to leave the union doesn't make sense.
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Faced with terror, France must be strong, it must be great, and the state authorities must be firm.
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The migrant question is directly linked to the crisis in Syria and Iraq.
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That is now my mission: to provide a European vision of growth, employment, prosperity - in one word, our future.
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I have defended the interests of France at the G8 in Washington; afterwards I was at Chicago to announce the withdrawal of French troops from Afghanistan; I have participated in two European summits, so I have fully respected the engagements I made to the French.
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I can't separate the fight with terrorism and the fight against global warming. These are two big global challenges we have to face up to because we have to leave our children more than a world free of terror; we also owe them a planet protected from catastrophes.
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Though Africa is not responsible for emitting greenhouse gases, it is suffering the consequences of climate change.