I want France to become the European hub for R&D.
— Emmanuel Macron
The state has an offensive and defensive role to play as promoter of industrial policies, as regulator and as shareholder.
The doctors, whether based in Brussels or Paris, draw the same conclusions and write the same prescriptions.
What we need is a common goal for more Europe.
We need people who dream impossible things, who maybe fail, sometimes succeed, but in any case who have that ambition.
Honesty compels me to say that I am not a socialist. But so what?
We need to restore democracy and sovereignty in Europe.
The best way to afford a suit is to work.
The status quo leads to self-destruction.
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.
France has to reform, to recover, and get more competitiveness.
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.
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 can block a marriage, but you cannot force a marriage.
The refugee crisis shows we can't be isolated from the world's geopolitical troubles.
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 a huge responsibility to make sure that Europe remains a prosperous and peaceful continent.
We need to go faster on structural reforms in France.
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 am a newcomer. I want to remain a newcomer. That is my DNA.
If approval was a criterion in this country, nothing would ever get done.
I am attached to a strict approach to Brexit: I respect the British vote, but the worst thing would be a sort of weak E.U. vis-a-vis the British.
I learned the life of business, commerce - it's an art.
If people do not believe in Europe and in the euro area, it must be dismantled.
France has to accelerate in terms of reform.
Historically speaking, the French economy was largely driven by the demand side.
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.
A Left that does nothing achieves nothing.
To create greater convergence, we need more intergration.
Brexit is the other face of the refugee crisis - tensions that lead to stasis, external risks that lead to asymmetric shocks.
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.
Europe's younger generation has only experienced austerity.
France is back.
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.
The functioning of our society is in a certain way sclerotic.
Sovereignty is not just at the national level; that's the mistake of Brexit that other people make.
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.
I am not a socialist.
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.
What we need is much more flexibility for the labour markets.
Without investment, you cannot have jobs.
If I was British, I would vote resolutely 'remain' because it's in the U.K.'s interest.
Popularity isn't my compass. Unless it can help one to act, to be understood... that's what counts.
We're not isolated from the world. The world knocks on our door.
