Francois Hollande Quotes
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I will not give way because too many previous governments have backed down.
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Private life is always, at certain times, a challenge.
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During a term in office there are highs and lows, but what counts is that the goal is set as well as the means to achieve it, and the force we put into getting results.
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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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The fight against global warming is a humanitarian issue - how the planet can be preserved - and it is also an issue of considerable economic importance, of what we call green growth.
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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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Islamist terrorism has declared war against us, against France, Europe, the entire world.
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The real threat comes from terrorism.
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Doesn't everyone have their hair done?
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Austerity need not be Europe's fate.
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I am attached to the French language. I will defend the ubiquitous use of French.
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What the terrorists want is to scare us and fill us with dread.
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Between France and Senegal there's a history. There's a language that we both speak. There's a culture that we share and to which both of our peoples have contributed. But beyond our history, beyond our language, beyond the links that have united us for so long, what unites us today is the future.
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Our common responsibility is to put Europe's interests first.
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Our enemy in Syria is Daesh: it's not about containing but destroying this organisation.
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China... has the capacity to ensure its stability and growth.
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I want to initiate a change in society in the long term.
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I don't know if you can hear me, but I have heard you. I heard your willingness to change. Your force, your hope... and I want to tell you how grateful I am. Thank you, thank you, thank you, people of France.
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We find ourselves in a difficult situation in Europe. There's a crisis, weak growth, unemployment... my duty is to ensure that by the end of my mandate France is in a better state than it was at the beginning.
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A compromise appears out of reach on the stripping of terrorists' nationality.
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Whoever pays should control; whoever pays should sanction. I agree. But budgetary union should be completed by a partial mutualisation of debts through eurobonds.
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When I travel officially... and when I travel on a private basis, I have protection that is less suffocating. But I am protected everywhere.
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Europe must act quickly where it's needed and must, once and for all, let member states handle what is their exclusive domain.
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Everyone must be in the same competitive situation, including on the fiscal level.