Francois Hollande Quotes

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Francois Hollande

Profession : Statesman

Birth : August 12, 1954

There's always a risk when the candidate becomes president: Will he deliver what is expected of him?

Francois Hollande

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.

Francois Hollande

I am the president of the youth of France.

Francois Hollande

There is just one France... one single nation, united in the same destiny.

Francois Hollande

I am attached to the French language. I will defend the ubiquitous use of French.

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I want to initiate a change in society in the long term.

Francois Hollande

Before you, I engage myself to serve my country with the devotion and the exemplary that this post demands. I understand responsibilities of the job and, as such, I give a republican salute to Nicolas Sarkozy who has led France for 5 years and who deserves all of our respect.

Francois Hollande

Austerity need not be Europe's fate.

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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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Is France a northern European export powerhouse, or a Mediterranean indebted and dependent economy? Yes to both.

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I gave myself an objective, to be the second president from Correze and finally to be the successor to Francois Mitterrand.

Francois Hollande

Nicolas Sarkozy said he could see a wave rising. For once he was right. The wave's coming; it's high, its strong, and it's going to smack him in the face.

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I won't wait until the end of my term to say I made mistakes at the beginning. That's too late. I will try to adopt the proper behaviour, if the French give me the chance, right from the start.

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As a president I will be like the candidate that I am, a respectful candidate, a rallying candidate, a normal candidate for a normal presidency, at the service of the Republic.

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Each country has a soul, and France's soul is equality.

Francois Hollande

I could have made a fortune in cheeseburgers, but I finally chose politics.

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My dear citizens, fellow citizens, French people, this 6th of May, have just chosen change by bringing me the presidency of the French republic. I feel the honor, which has been given to me and the task, the important task faced beyond - in front of you to serve my country.

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I commit myself to serve my country.

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I'm going to gather all the French people who want change.

Francois Hollande

We are near, very near, to an end to the eurozone crisis... The worst - in the sense of the fear of the eurozone breaking up - is over. But the best isn't there yet.

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