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I am not deaf. I hear the anger. I see the dissatisfaction, and I have to go faster.
My goal is to put France back on its feet. I have to put this country back on its feet.
I hope Britain stays in the European Union, but I don't want to decide for the British.
Our enemy in Syria is Daesh: it's not about containing but destroying this organisation.
France needs to improve training and education and the level of skills of its workforce.
Islamist terrorism has declared war against us, against France, Europe, the entire world.
People are tired of constant movement, improvisation, and wild scrambling when plans fail.
Terrorism fuels itself from all kinds of illicit trafficking: drugs, weapons, human beings.
I noticed that parts of the opposition have been hostile to any revision of the constitution.
Faced with terror, France must be strong, it must be great, and the state authorities must be firm.
There's always a risk when the candidate becomes president: Will he deliver what is expected of him?
There cannot be any concessions on the matter of human rights or the criteria for visa liberalisation.
The first time that I went to the United States was in 1974. I was 20 years old. America was in crisis.
To resolve the climate crisis, good will, statements of intent are not enough. We are at breaking point.
I prefer that people remember me as a president who made reforms rather than a president who did nothing.
Germany and France are pinning their hopes on young people, in terms of education, science and innovation.
An education program is, by definition, a societal program. Work should be done at school, rather than at home.
Is France a northern European export powerhouse, or a Mediterranean indebted and dependent economy? Yes to both.
That is now my mission: to provide a European vision of growth, employment, prosperity - in one word, our future.
Though Africa is not responsible for emitting greenhouse gases, it is suffering the consequences of climate change.
Nothing was given to me, nothing was entrusted to me, nothing was assigned to me. Everything I have, I took by right.
In August 2012, the international community should have been far more determined in dealing with the Bashar Assad regime.
I gave myself an objective, to be the second president from Correze and finally to be the successor to Francois Mitterrand.
France, because it was attacked cowardly, shamelessly, violently, France will be merciless against the barbarians of Daesh.
My obligation, if I become president, is to give another direction to Europe than the one that is being forced upon us today.
Europe must act quickly where it's needed and must, once and for all, let member states handle what is their exclusive domain.
There must be pressure on Moscow so that we have negotiations. Moscow will not succeed by unilaterally backing Bashar al-Assad.
Daesh is the enemy of Europe, and Europe cannot live with the idea that the crises that surround it don't have an effect on it.
Everyone must understand that you can't demand solidarity when there's a problem and shirk your duties when there are solutions.
I don't like indecent, unearned wealth. But it is legitimate for an entrepreneur who has created something to make a good living.
I'm not a lukewarm European. I know that the German-French friendship is indispensable, no matter who the countries' leaders are.
To be influential in tomorrow's world, to defend our values and our development model, France needs Europe and Europe needs France.
My real adversary has no name, no face, no party. It will never be elected, yet it governs - the adversary is the world of finance.
If Europe does not advance, it will fall or even be wiped out from the world map... My duty is to bring Europe out of its lethargy.
I can understand countries don't want to join the euro, but they cannot impede the consolidation and strengthening of the eurozone.
My mission is to put France back on its feet. The priority is employment. Efforts have to be made, but those efforts must be made fairly.
Our only goal is to strengthen the opposition and to avoid the dilemma whereby we only have the choice between Bashar Assad and al-Qaeda.
I must demonstrate I'm closer to people - a simpler, calmer presence, yet someone who can also make decisions and obtain promised results.
When I travel officially... and when I travel on a private basis, I have protection that is less suffocating. But I am protected everywhere.
I support the French team - I go to all their matches - but I don't want to use sport for politics. That's not good for sport or for politics.
The German-French friendship is indispensable for Europe. And I will never let myself be carried away to making statements that would change it.
I would like a UK fully engaged in Europe, but I can't decide in place of the British. I see that for the moment they want to be more in retreat.
I bow down in memory of the victims, and I come to tell my Armenian friends that we will never forget the tragedies that your people has endured.
Things are going better: there is more growth, less deficit, more competitiveness, better margins for companies, more purchasing power for workers.
I want the French people to respect values that allow each individual to practice his or her faith, but in the frame of our common rules of secularism.
Mandela's message will never die. It will continue to inspire freedom fighters and give confidence to people who defend just causes and universal rights.
We must not lose time, neither for dealing in a suitable way with the question of the United Kingdom's exit, nor for providing a new impetus for the E.U.
Nicolas Sarkozy said he could see a wave rising. For once he was right. The wave's coming; it's high, its strong, and it's going to smack him in the face.
A large country with such outstanding economic performance as Germany cannot forget that it owes some of its success to demand from other European countries.
If I become president, France will not continue with the same policies as under Nicolas Sarkozy - both in domestic policy and in foreign and European policy.