Top 90 Emmanuel Macron Quotes

We need to go faster on structural reforms in France.

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 am not a socialist.

The status quo leads to self-destruction.

I am from the Left, but I am happy to work with people from the Right.

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

We back Hinkley Point project. It’s very important for France; it’s very important for the nuclear sector and EDF.

Never boo or hiss at my rallies. That is for people with no hope.

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

When politics is no longer a mission but a profession, politicians become more self-serving than public servants.

I want to be the president of all the people of France, for the patriots facing the threat of nationalism.

I touched the limits of our political system, which pushes one to last-minute compromises. Explanations are rarely given. It plays to people’s fears because it hasn’t built an ideological consensus. It produces flawed solutions and too often ignores reality.

Europe and the world are waiting for us to defend the spirit of the enlightenment everywhere.

Globalization can be a great opportunity.

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 bilateral relationship.

Through work, education, and culture, I will give hope to our country.

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.

We need people who dream impossible things, who maybe fail, sometimes succeed, but in any case who have that ambition.

Consolidation means less equipment, less networks, and less jobs.

We have to breathe new life into Europe.

I kept trying, proposing, pushing… If you want to succeed, you cannot leave work half done, and unfortunately, many things were left half done. The choice was made not to launch a second wave of economic reforms that I was proposing.

I learned the life of business, commerce – it’s an art.

We need young Frenchmen who want to become billionaires.

People find it difficult to accept something that is sincere and unique.

I want France to become the European hub for R&D.

Brexit is the other face of the refugee crisis – tensions that lead to stasis, external risks that lead to asymmetric shocks.

The challenge is to open a new page in our political life and to take action so that everyone is able to find his or her place in France and in Europe.

I have a vision of my country, and I cannot sit and watch things pass by.

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 come all wreathed in a reputation the press has made for me. Judge me on my actions. That’s all that counts.

Really, creation and innovation are part of the French DNA.

France has always succeeded because it is part of the world.

I know the divisions in our nation that led some to extreme votes. I respect them.

E.U. is the first global domestic market.

My key message is be innovative, be ambitious; think global and big on day one.

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

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

Political experience is political inefficacy.

We have to provide more visibility, more certainty to the investors and reduce the cost of failure.

You can block a marriage, but you cannot force a marriage.

I think when people have pudding and jobs, they vote for you.

I will defend Europe; it is our civilisation which is at stake… I will work to rebuild ties between Europe and its citizens.

Europe’s younger generation has only experienced austerity.

There is no access to the market without budgetary contributions… and without respect for the four freedoms of the E.U.

France has to accelerate in terms of reform.

My priority is my economy minister mandate and to create momentum.

We can’t fix the real problems if we only cauterize and don’t treat the roots of evil.

I’m a child of provincial France.

We have to shift the social model from a lot of formal protections toward loosening bottlenecks in the economy.

To think that our political organisation is immutable is the best way to hand the country over to the extremes.

We are a continent of refugees, and if you say we can’t integrate refugees, that’s not consistent with our values, even if borders cannot be wide open.

We have to reconcile Europeans with Europe.

Our language, history, and civilization shine out across every continent.

What we need is much more flexibility for the labour markets.

Modernity is disruptive, and I endorse that.

I will lead a fight against Islamist terrorism at every level.

If people do not believe in Europe and in the euro area, it must be dismantled.

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.

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.

My responsibility will be to unite all the women and men ready to take on the tremendous challenges which are waiting for us, and to act.

I don’t have luxurious tastes or great needs, but my independence is worth a lot to me.

You have to learn to fight for things, to bear the burden and have a life which does not in any way correspond to other peoples’ lives.

Popularity isn’t an objective in itself. I’m not in this game.

In a common project, we can bring together well-meaning people from the Left and the Right.

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.

Without investment, you cannot have jobs.

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.

I am not just a liberal movement. I come from the progressive Left. I am trying to refresh and counter the system.

I have decided to create a new political movement.

When the president and the prime minister decide to implement reforms, they have all the measures they need to pass them and enforce them.

The state has an offensive and defensive role to play as promoter of industrial policies, as regulator and as shareholder.

Long live the Republic, long live France.

Europe and the world are waiting for us to defend the spirit of Enlightenment, threatened in so many places.

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.

Believe in individual initiatives, in courage, in risk.

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.

We need to restore democracy and sovereignty in Europe.

The strategy we must follow is to defend the special relationship between Great Britain and Europe and, more specifically, between Europe and France.

No matter who you voted for, I do not hold anything against you.

We’re not isolated from the world. The world knocks on our door.

I don’t believe that killing the French model in order to become the U.K. or the United States overnight is the solution. You have a big debate on inequality there, and for our society, a lot of inequality would not be bearable.

The 28-member Europe must be simpler, clearer, more efficient, and continue to advance on digital and energy issues.

I bring the spirit of French conquest.

France is a strong, wealthy country.

Sovereignty is not just at the national level; that’s the mistake of Brexit that other people make.

France has to reform, to recover, and get more competitiveness.

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.