Top 219 Quotes & Sayings by Emmanuel Macron - Page 2

France is back.

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.

My responsibility will be to unite all the women and men ready to take on the tremendous challenges which are waiting for us, and to act.

The functioning of our society is in a certain way sclerotic.

What we need is much more flexibility for the labour markets.

We've created rigidities at the entrance point in artisanal occupations.

De facto, you have a multi-speed Europe. You look at the Schengen, you look at the euro zone, all this kind of cooperations, you have a multi-speed Europe.

I think when people have pudding and jobs, they vote for you.

I come all wreathed in a reputation the press has made for me. Judge me on my actions. That's all that counts.

We have to be extremely strict on the implementation of Brexit so there is a common approach between member states. We must avoid a sector-by-sector or country-by-country approach, and ask the U.K. to be clear.

The doctors, whether based in Brussels or Paris, draw the same conclusions and write the same prescriptions.

I bring the spirit of French conquest.

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.

Under the French system, you have to take into consideration that every five years, the president is directly elected by the people. He's the one that has the legitimacy.

We have a lack of growth in Europe, in eurozone, and in France, and we are struggling hard to recover and restore this growth.

Historically speaking, the French economy was largely driven by the demand side.

What matters to me is to find rational solutions for those that are facing difficulties so that France preserves jobs and its ability to innovate.

We have the eurozone. Could we accept to be cleared, regulated, and de facto have inflows and outflows from a country that has decided to leave the E.U.? For me, definitely not.

My key message is be innovative, be ambitious; think global and big on day one.

Leaving the E.U. would mean the 'Guernseyfication' of the U.K., which would then be a little country on the world scale. It would isolate itself and become a trading post and arbitration place at Europe's border.

You need basically some accountability rules, which means democratic checks and balances at the euro zone level, and definitely, you have to increase convergence in terms of taxes, in terms of social affairs and so on.

I don't believe that killing the French model in order to become the U.K. or the United States overnight is the solution. You have a big debate on inequality there, and for our society, a lot of inequality would not be bearable.

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

I want to become the president of all the people of France - the president of the patriots in the face of the threat from the nationalists.

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.

I know the divisions in our nation that led some to extreme votes. I respect them.

What we need is a common goal for more Europe.

Without investment, you cannot have jobs.

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.

We have no choice but to reform this country.

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

If people do not believe in Europe and in the euro area, it must be dismantled.

I want France to become the European hub for R&D.

Sovereignty is not just at the national level; that's the mistake of Brexit that other people make.

I am not a socialist.

The only way governments or would-be governments respond to ills these days is by seeking to lower the temperature... and that tends to mean public spending.

We need to go faster on structural reforms in France.

Europe's younger generation has only experienced austerity.

To think that our political organisation is immutable is the best way to hand the country over to the extremes.

We have a huge responsibility to make sure that Europe remains a prosperous and peaceful continent.

When the president and the prime minister decide to implement reforms, they have all the measures they need to pass them and enforce them.

France is a strong, wealthy country.

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.

I am proud of my immaturity and political inexperience.

I am from the Left, but I am happy to work with people from the Right.

I will fight with all my power against the divisions that undermine us and which are tearing us apart.

If approval was a criterion in this country, nothing would ever get done.

The financial passport is part of full access to the E.U. market, and a precondition for that is the contribution to the E.U. budget. That has been the case in Norway and in Switzerland. That is clear.

Consolidation means less equipment, less networks, and less jobs.

If I was British, I would vote resolutely 'remain' because it's in the U.K.'s interest.

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

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

I am a newcomer. I want to remain a newcomer. That is my DNA.

I don't want a tailor-made approach where the British have the best of two worlds. That will be too big an incentive for others to leave and kill the European idea, which is based on shared responsibilities.

In a common project, we can bring together well-meaning people from the Left and the Right.

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.

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

We will open a new bunch of reforms regarding the labor market to make it simpler and adaptable, more flexible.

France has to accelerate in terms of reform.

E.U. is the first global domestic market.