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 Relationship
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 Equality
When politics is no longer a mission but a profession, politicians become more self-serving than public servants. -Emmanuel Macron Politics
We have to provide more visibility, more certainty to the investors and reduce the cost of failure. -Emmanuel Macron Failure
I don't have luxurious tastes or great needs, but my independence is worth a lot to me. -Emmanuel Macron Independence
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 Peace
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 Romantic