Quotes by Emmanuel Macron

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

Its about our ability precisely to integrate a people and offer jobs, and that, for me, is one of the key rationales of the reforms Im pushing, and Im a strong believer in that when you lift barriers, when you deregulate a lot of stuff, basically you improve the equality of opportunities.

I dont have luxurious tastes or great needs, but my independence is worth a lot to me.

Believe in individual initiatives, in courage, in risk.

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

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

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.

A romantic or classical view of the French approach would have been to say, Its a French company; let no one attack it. Lets block any merger. But the reality is Alcatel-Lucent is not a French company; its a global company. Its main markets are China and the U.S. Its ownership is foreign; most of its managers arent French.

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.