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.
Politics is not predictions and politics is not observations. Politics is what we do. Politics is what we do, politics is what we create, by what we work for, by what we hope for and what we dare to imagine.
Politics matter, but politics can't come first. If politics come first in your life, something is wrong with you. It's a sad thing.
The defense budget is more than a piggy bank for people who want to get busy beating swords into pork barrels.
Politics: the art of appearing candid and completely open while concealing as much as possible.
We've come to be consumed by a 24-hour, slash-and-burn, negative ad, bickering, small-minded politics that doesn't move us forward. Sometimes one side is up and the other side is down. But there's no sense that they are coming together in a common-sense, practical, nonideological way to solve the problems that we face.
Growing up, I never ever thought that I would or could or should be involved in politics. I didn't see anyone who looked like me in spaces of power.
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