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.