Emmanuel Macron

Believe in individual initiatives, in courage, in risk.

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

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.

Popularity isn't my compass. Unless it can help one to act, to be understood... that's what counts.

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.

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

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

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

We have no choice but to reform this country.

If approval was a criterion in this country, nothing would ever get done.

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

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.

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.

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.

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

Political experience is political inefficacy.

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

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.

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