Believe in individual initiatives, in courage, in risk.
Emmanuel MacronRead
Political experience is political inefficacy.
Interpretation
Political experience often leads to ineffective governance.
Emmanuel Macron's quote suggests that having extensive experience in politics does not necessarily equate to effective leadership or successful outcomes. It implies that those entrenched in political systems may become accustomed to inefficiencies and may not inspire meaningful change, highlighting the paradox where experience does not guarantee positive results in governance.
In practice
In a discussion about the ineffectiveness of career politicians.
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.
Wealthy individuals bought themselves a radical right party, believing - correctly - that it would cut their taxes and remove regulations, but failed to realize that eventually the craziness would take on a life of its own, and that the monster they created would turn on its creators as well as the little people.
Democracy is the recurrent suspicion that more than half of the people are right more than half of the time.
I learned to be far more skeptical of what I'm told by presidents, no matter who the presidents are, and also to be much more cautious, always, in any action or vote that could lead to the use of American military power and most particularly what we call 'boots on the ground.'
Wherever despotism abounds, the sources of public information are the first to be brought under its control.
One of the greatest casualties of the war in Vietnam is the Great Society... shot down on the battlefield of Vietnam.
A politician's words reveal less about what he thinks about his subject than what he thinks about his audience.
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