We have the force, the energy, and the determination, and we will not give in to fear.
I am not shy. I am for an open society. I am for a progressive world. I do not propose to reform France; I propose to transform it at its deepest level.
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.
I think when people have pudding and jobs, they vote for you.
I realised how much the system did not want to change.
My key message is be innovative, be ambitious; think global and big on day one.
I push reforms. I tell the truth to people, even when it's tough for the country.
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.
France has to accelerate in terms of reform.
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.
A Left that does nothing achieves nothing.
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.
Without investment, you cannot have jobs.
Our mission... it will be difficult, it will take time, it will be demanding for all men and women... will be to act in such a way that French people of the Muslim faith are always more proud of being French than of being Muslim.
If approval was a criterion in this country, nothing would ever get done.
France has to reform, to recover, and get more competitiveness.
I want France to become the European hub for R&D.
Europe and the world are waiting for us to defend the spirit of Enlightenment, threatened in so many places.
We are implementing an in-depth reform on labor market, not to reduce rights for workers but to provide more visibility and more efficiency to investors and employers because it's the key for job creation.
The status quo leads to self-destruction.
