Emmanuel Macron Quotes

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Emmanuel Macron

Profession : Politician

Birth : December 21, 1977

I will defend Europe; it is our civilisation which is at stake... I will work to rebuild ties between Europe and its citizens.

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Europe and the world are waiting for us to defend the spirit of the enlightenment everywhere.

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My priority is my economy minister mandate and to create momentum.

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There are two projects facing each other. There's Marine Le Pen's project of a fractured, closed France. On the other hand, you have my project which is a republican, patriotic project aiming at... reconciling France.

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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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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 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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I am not a socialist.

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The refugee crisis is a challenge for the whole of Europe, and Europe - it's a very fair point to say it's not just a security issue. It's also an economic issue.

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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.

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Popularity isn't my compass. Unless it can help one to act, to be understood... that's what counts.

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A Left that does nothing achieves nothing.

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France has to reform, to recover, and get more competitiveness.

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The state has an offensive and defensive role to play as promoter of industrial policies, as regulator and as shareholder.

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Popularity isn't an objective in itself. I'm not in this game.

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We're not isolated from the world. The world knocks on our door.

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It's about our ability precisely to integrate a people and offer jobs, and that, for me, is one of the key rationales of the reforms I'm pushing, and I'm a strong believer in that when you lift barriers, when you deregulate a lot of stuff, basically you improve the equality of opportunities.

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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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I kept trying, proposing, pushing... If you want to succeed, you cannot leave work half done, and unfortunately, many things were left half done. The choice was made not to launch a second wave of economic reforms that I was proposing.

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I don't want to create a too-big-to-fail player.

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