Emmanuel Macron

“There are two projects facing each other. There's Marine Le Pen's project of a fractured, closed France. On the other hand, you have my project which is a republican, patriotic project aiming at... reconciling France.”

“I'm not a movie star, and I don't want to become a movie star.”

“France was given up to fire and bloodshed, she experienced famine, she experienced the worst of things, she was nearly chopped up in pieces forever because of the decision... to exclude, to brand one party as guilty and annihilate them.”

“France is back.”

“What we need is a common goal for more 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.”

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

“I want to unite our people and our country. I will serve you with humility and force in the name of liberte, egalite, fraternite.”

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

“Globalization can be a great opportunity.”

“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.”

“Honesty compels me to say that I am not a socialist. But so what?”

“We should not replicate the situation where one country is in a situation to hijack the rest of Europe because they organize a referendum.”