- I am not just a liberal movement. I come from the progressive Left. I am trying to refresh and counter the system.
- 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.
- When politics is no longer a mission but a profession, politicians become more self-serving than public servants.
- We need people who dream impossible things, who maybe fail, sometimes succeed, but in any case who have that ambition.
- 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.
- Believe in individual initiatives, in courage, in risk.
- I am from the Left, but I am happy to work with people from the Right.
- The best way to afford a suit is to work.
- France is back.
- You can block a marriage, but you cannot force a marriage.
- 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.
- To create greater convergence, we need more integration.
- My key message is be innovative, be ambitious; think global and big on day one.
- The refugee crisis shows we can't be isolated from the world's geopolitical troubles.
- You can suddenly have a series of countries waking up and saying, 'I want the same status as the Brits,' which will be, de facto, the dismantling of the rest of Europe.
- Historically speaking, the French economy was largely driven by the demand side.
- 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.
- If people do not believe in Europe and in the euro area, it must be dismantled.
- What we need is a common goal for more Europe.
- We need to restore democracy and sovereignty in Europe.
- The status quo leads to self-destruction.
- A Left that does nothing achieves nothing.
- We're not isolated from the world. The world knocks on our door.
- I am a newcomer. I want to remain a newcomer. That is my DNA.
- If I was British, I would vote resolutely 'remain' because it's in the U.K.'s interest.
- 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 have luxurious tastes or great needs, but my independence is worth a lot to me.
- We have to breathe new life into Europe.
- I'm in a left-wing government, unashamedly... but I also want to work with people from the Right who commit to the same values.
- I push reforms. I tell the truth to people, even when it's tough for the country.
- When you discuss your steel industry with China you are credible because you are part of the E.U., not because you are just U.K. You will be completely killed otherwise. You will never be in the situation to negotiate face to face with the Chinese because your domestic market is not relevant for the Chinese in comparison with their domestic market.
- Without investment, you cannot have jobs.
- Popularity isn't my compass. Unless it can help one to act, to be understood... that's what counts.
- 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.
- I realised how much the system did not want to change.
- 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.
- I am not a socialist.
- I learned the life of business, commerce - it's an art.
- 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.
- What we need is much more flexibility for the labour markets.
- 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.
- 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.
- Sovereignty is not just at the national level; that's the mistake of Brexit that other people make.
- The doctors, whether based in Brussels or Paris, draw the same conclusions and write the same prescriptions.
- If approval was a criterion in this country, nothing would ever get done.
- Europe's younger generation has only experienced austerity.
- 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.
- 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.
- We have a huge responsibility to make sure that Europe remains a prosperous and peaceful continent.
- I want France to become the European hub for R&D.
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