Top 144 Emmanuel Macron Quotes December 19, 2020 by Krista Aniston Leave a Comment “When politics is no longer a mission but a profession, politicians become more self-serving than public servants.”― Emmanuel Macron“I am from the Left, but I am happy to work with people from the Right.”― Emmanuel Macron“I think when people have pudding and jobs, they vote for you.”― Emmanuel Macron“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.”― Emmanuel Macron“We need people who dream impossible things, who maybe fail, sometimes succeed, but in any case who have that ambition.”― Emmanuel Macron“I am not just a liberal movement. I come from the progressive Left. I am trying to refresh and counter the system.”― Emmanuel Macron“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.”― Emmanuel Macron“If I was British, I would vote resolutely ‘remain’ because it’s in the U.K.’s interest.”― Emmanuel Macron“Modernity is disruptive, and I endorse that.”― Emmanuel Macron“Globalization can be a great opportunity.”― Emmanuel Macron“We have to breathe new life into Europe.”― Emmanuel Macron“We have the force, the energy, and the determination, and we will not give in to fear.”― Emmanuel Macron“I learned the life of business, commerce – it’s an art.”― Emmanuel Macron“The refugee crisis shows we can’t be isolated from the world’s geopolitical troubles.”― Emmanuel Macron“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.”― Emmanuel Macron“To create greater convergence, we need more intergration.”― Emmanuel Macron“Believe in individual initiatives, in courage, in risk.”― Emmanuel Macron“Sovereignty is not just at the national level; that’s the mistake of Brexit that other people make.”― Emmanuel Macron“I don’t have luxurious tastes or great needs, but my independence is worth a lot to me.”― Emmanuel Macron“My key message is be innovative, be ambitious; think global and big on day one.”― Emmanuel Macron“Political experience is political inefficacy.”― Emmanuel Macron“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.”― Emmanuel Macron“Brexit is the other face of the refugee crisis – tensions that lead to stasis, external risks that lead to asymmetric shocks.”― Emmanuel Macron“You can block a marriage, but you cannot force a marriage.”― Emmanuel Macron“Historically speaking, the French economy was largely driven by the demand side.”― Emmanuel Macron“What we need is much more flexibility for the labour markets.”― Emmanuel Macron“The status quo leads to self-destruction.”― Emmanuel Macron“I am not a socialist.”― Emmanuel Macron“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.”― Emmanuel Macron“We need young Frenchmen who want to become billionaires.”― Emmanuel Macron“We should not replicate the situation where one country is in a situation to hijack the rest of Europe because they organize a referendum.”― Emmanuel Macron“I have a vision of my country, and I cannot sit and watch things pass by.”― Emmanuel Macron“Consolidation means less equipment, less networks, and less jobs.”― Emmanuel Macron“We can’t fix the real problems if we only cauterize and don’t treat the roots of evil.”― Emmanuel Macron“Our language, history, and civilization shine out across every continent.”― Emmanuel Macron“The strategy we must follow is to defend the special relationship between Great Britain and Europe and, more specifically, between Europe and France.”― Emmanuel Macron“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.”― Emmanuel Macron“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.”― Emmanuel Macron“We have to reconcile Europeans with Europe.”― Emmanuel Macron“I want to unite our people and our country. I will serve you with humility and force in the name of liberte, egalite, fraternite.”― Emmanuel Macron“I will fight with all my power against the divisions that undermine us and which are tearing us apart.”― Emmanuel Macron“We’re not isolated from the world. The world knocks on our door.”― Emmanuel Macron“Popularity isn’t my compass. Unless it can help one to act, to be understood… that’s what counts.”― Emmanuel Macron“A Left that does nothing achieves nothing.”― Emmanuel Macron“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.”― Emmanuel Macron“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.”― Emmanuel Macron“Without investment, you cannot have jobs.”― Emmanuel Macron“France has to reform, to recover, and get more competitiveness.”― Emmanuel Macron“France has to accelerate in terms of reform.”― Emmanuel Macron“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.”― Emmanuel Macron“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.”― Emmanuel Macron“If people do not believe in Europe and in the euro area, it must be dismantled.”― Emmanuel Macron“The best way to afford a suit is to work.”― Emmanuel Macron“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.”― Emmanuel Macron“We need to restore democracy and sovereignty in Europe.”― Emmanuel Macron“If approval was a criterion in this country, nothing would ever get done.”― Emmanuel Macron“Honesty compels me to say that I am not a socialist. But so what?”― Emmanuel Macron“The functioning of our society is in a certain way sclerotic.”― Emmanuel Macron“I am a newcomer. I want to remain a newcomer. That is my DNA.”― Emmanuel Macron“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.”― Emmanuel Macron“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.”― Emmanuel Macron“What we need is a common goal for more Europe.”― Emmanuel Macron“France is back.”― Emmanuel Macron“We need to go faster on structural reforms in France.”― Emmanuel Macron“The doctors, whether based in Brussels or Paris, draw the same conclusions and write the same prescriptions.”― Emmanuel Macron“Europe’s younger generation has only experienced austerity.”― Emmanuel Macron“We have a huge responsibility to make sure that Europe remains a prosperous and peaceful continent.”― Emmanuel Macron“The state has an offensive and defensive role to play as promoter of industrial policies, as regulator and as shareholder.”― Emmanuel Macron“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 company; it’s a global company. Its main markets are China and the U.S. Its ownership is foreign; most of its managers aren’t French.”― Emmanuel Macron“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.”― Emmanuel Macron“I want France to become the European hub for R&D.”― Emmanuel Macron“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.”― Emmanuel Macron“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.”― Emmanuel Macron“We back Hinkley Point project. It’s very important for France; it’s very important for the nuclear sector and EDF.”― Emmanuel Macron“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.”― Emmanuel Macron“I push reforms. I tell the truth to people, even when it’s tough for the country.”― Emmanuel Macron“Popularity isn’t an objective in itself. I’m not in this game.”― Emmanuel Macron“I’m not a movie star, and I don’t want to become a movie star.”― Emmanuel Macron“We’ve created rigidities at the entrance point in artisanal occupations.”― Emmanuel Macron“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.”― Emmanuel Macron“You need a debate and a vote on the principles: Do you want more Europe or less Europe? Do you believe we are more efficient with defense and security with Europe, or not? Do you believe we are more efficient for our companies with or without Europe? Those are the questions we have to discuss and push our people to vote on it.”― Emmanuel Macron“Even if the Brits decide to remain, we will have to avoid a contagion on other countries.”― Emmanuel Macron“I come all wreathed in a reputation the press has made for me. Judge me on my actions. That’s all that counts.”― Emmanuel Macron“We have a lack of growth in Europe, in eurozone, and in France, and we are struggling hard to recover and restore this growth.”― Emmanuel Macron“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.”― Emmanuel Macron“E.U. is the first global domestic market.”― Emmanuel Macron“To think that our political organisation is immutable is the best way to hand the country over to the extremes.”― Emmanuel Macron“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.”― Emmanuel Macron“My priority is my economy minister mandate and to create momentum.”― Emmanuel Macron“In a common project, we can bring together well-meaning people from the Left and the Right.”― Emmanuel Macron“We will open a new bunch of reforms regarding the labor market to make it simpler and adaptable, more flexible.”― Emmanuel Macron“Under the French system, you have to take into consideration that every five years, the president is directly elected by the people. He’s the one that has the legitimacy.”― Emmanuel Macron“When the president and the prime minister decide to implement reforms, they have all the measures they need to pass them and enforce them.”― Emmanuel Macron“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.”― Emmanuel Macron“The only way governments or would-be governments respond to ills these days is by seeking to lower the temperature… and that tends to mean public spending.”― Emmanuel Macron“We have to provide more visibility, more certainty to the investors and reduce the cost of failure.”― Emmanuel Macron“We have no choice but to reform this country.”― Emmanuel Macron“France is a strong, wealthy country.”― Emmanuel Macron“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.”― Emmanuel Macron“We have to shift the social model from a lot of formal protections toward loosening bottlenecks in the economy.”― Emmanuel Macron“I have decided to create a new political movement.”― Emmanuel Macron“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.”― Emmanuel Macron“We can’t have our industry progressively destroyed by cheap Chinese imports.”― Emmanuel Macron“I don’t want to create a too-big-to-fail player.”― Emmanuel Macron“If I were to reason like those who roll out red carpets, I would say we might have some repatriations from the City of London.”― Emmanuel Macron“I realised how much the system did not want to change.”― Emmanuel Macron“I’ve taken my time. I’ve thought about it; I’ve consulted, and I’ve decided that we are going to create a new political movement, one that will be neither on the Right or the Left.”― Emmanuel Macron“We have to accept the idea that Europe will be made on a two-speed basis, with a union based on solidarity and differentiation.”― Emmanuel Macron“The 28-member Europe must be simpler, clearer, more efficient, and continue to advance on digital and energy issues.”― Emmanuel Macron“As to the euro zone avant-garde, it must go towards more solidarity and integration: a common budget, a common borrowing capability, and fiscal convergence.”― Emmanuel Macron“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.”― Emmanuel Macron“I want to help with Muslim integration. If you follow the line of Marine Le Pen, you create a civil war.”― 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.”― Emmanuel Macron“Democratic states must have access to content exchanged between terrorists on social media and instant messaging.”― Emmanuel Macron“Don’t leave criticism of the E.U. to those who hate it.”― Emmanuel Macron“I’m a child of provincial France.”― Emmanuel Macron“I make no concessions to conformism.”― Emmanuel Macron“People find it difficult to accept something that is sincere and unique.”― Emmanuel Macron“I bring the spirit of French conquest.”― Emmanuel Macron“France has always succeeded because it is part of the world.”― Emmanuel Macron“France will be on the front line in the fight against terrorism.”― Emmanuel Macron“We have a great history; we have a great humanist face to put forward to the world.”― Emmanuel Macron“Through work, education, and culture, I will give hope to our country.”― Emmanuel Macron“I want to be the president of all the people of France, for the patriots facing the threat of nationalism.”― Emmanuel Macron“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.”― Emmanuel Macron“I know the divisions in our nation that led some to extreme votes. I respect them.”― Emmanuel Macron“I will lead a fight against Islamist terrorism at every level.”― Emmanuel Macron“The French are consistent.”― Emmanuel Macron“Europe and the world are waiting for us to defend the spirit of the enlightenment everywhere.”― Emmanuel Macron“Long live the Republic, long live France.”― Emmanuel Macron“No matter who you voted for, I do not hold anything against you.”― Emmanuel Macron“We need to deal with the economy and the moral weakness of the country.”― Emmanuel Macron“Never boo or hiss at my rallies. That is for people with no hope.”― Emmanuel Macron“I am proud of my immaturity and political inexperience.”― Emmanuel Macron“I want to become the president of all the people of France – the president of the patriots in the face of the threat from the nationalists.”― Emmanuel Macron“There is no access to the market without budgetary contributions… and without respect for the four freedoms of the E.U.”― Emmanuel Macron“I will defend Europe; it is our civilisation which is at stake… I will work to rebuild ties between Europe and its citizens.”― Emmanuel Macron“Europe and the world are waiting for us to defend the spirit of Enlightenment, threatened in so many places.”― Emmanuel Macron“Really, creation and innovation are part of the French DNA.”― Emmanuel Macron“I will do everything to make sure you never have reason again to vote for extremes.”― Emmanuel Macron“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.”― Emmanuel Macron“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.”― Emmanuel Macron“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.”― Emmanuel Macron“I will protect and defend France’s vital interests. I will protect and defend Europe.”― Emmanuel Macron
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