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

Modernity is disruptive, and I endorse that.

I will fight with all my power against the divisions that undermine us and which are tearing us apart.

Without investment, you cannot have jobs.

We need people who dream impossible things, who maybe fail, sometimes succeed, but in any case who have that ambition.

Believe in individual initiatives, in courage, in risk.

We're not isolated from the world. The world knocks on our door.

I am not just a liberal movement. I come from the progressive Left. I am trying to refresh and counter the system.

I don't want a tailor-made approach where the British have the best of two worlds. That will be too big an incentive for others to leave and kill the European idea, which is based on shared responsibilities.

I don't have luxurious tastes or great needs, but my independence is worth a lot to me.

To create greater convergence, we need more intergration.

Globalization can be a great opportunity.

I touched the limits of our political system, which pushes one to last-minute compromises. Explanations are rarely given. It plays to people's fears because it hasn't built an ideological consensus. It produces flawed solutions and too often ignores reality.

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.

My key message is be innovative, be ambitious; think global and big on day one.

A Left that does nothing achieves nothing.

Through work, education, and culture, I will give hope to our country.

I want to become the president of all the people of France - the president of the patriots in the face of the threat from the nationalists.

Historically speaking, the French economy was largely driven by the demand side.

We are implementing an in-depth reform on labor market, not to reduce rights for workers but to provide more visibility and more efficiency to investors and employers because it's the key for job creation.

You have to learn to fight for things, to bear the burden and have a life which does not in any way correspond to other peoples' lives.

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.

I am attached to a strict approach to Brexit: I respect the British vote, but the worst thing would be a sort of weak E.U. vis-a-vis the British.

People find it difficult to accept something that is sincere and unique.

I am not a socialist.

The refugee crisis shows we can't be isolated from the world's geopolitical troubles.

The status quo leads to self-destruction.

I push reforms. I tell the truth to people, even when it's tough for the country.

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

I realised how much the system did not want to change.

We can't fix the real problems if we only cauterize and don't treat the roots of evil.

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.

Consolidation means less equipment, less networks, and less jobs.

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

France has to reform, to recover, and get more competitiveness.

The state has an offensive and defensive role to play as promoter of industrial policies, as regulator and as shareholder.

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.

We need to go faster on structural reforms in France.

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

Never boo or hiss at my rallies. That is for people with no hope.

France has to accelerate in terms of reform.

I come all wreathed in a reputation the press has made for me. Judge me on my actions. That's all that 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.

What matters to me is to find rational solutions for those that are facing difficulties so that France preserves jobs and its ability to innovate.

I will protect and defend France's vital interests. I will protect and defend Europe.

I think when people have pudding and jobs, they vote for you.

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

When the president and the prime minister decide to implement reforms, they have all the measures they need to pass them and enforce them.

The only way governments or would-be governments respond to ills these days is by seeking to lower the temperature... and that tends to mean public spending.

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