9 quotes found
President of France since 2017
“Believe in individual initiatives, in courage, in risk.”
“You can block a marriage, but you cannot force a marriage.”
“I don't have luxurious tastes or great needs, but my independence is worth a lot to me.”
“We have to provide more visibility, more certainty to the investors and reduce the cost of failure.”
“When politics is no longer a mission but a profession, politicians become more self-serving than public servants.”
“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 bar...”
“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 r...”
“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 c...”
“Our interests lie in attracting added value and talent to France as a result of Brexit, but also in having a balanced relationship with Great Britain. We must not sacrifice the short term for our b...”