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.

We have the force, the energy, and the determination, and we will not give in to fear.

You need basically some accountability rules, which means democratic checks and balances at the euro zone level, and definitely, you have to increase convergence in terms of taxes, in terms of social affairs and so on.

Really, creation and innovation are part of the French DNA.

I am a newcomer. I want to remain a newcomer. That is my DNA.

As to the euro zone avant-garde, it must go towards more solidarity and integration: a common budget, a common borrowing capability, and fiscal convergence.

Leaving the E.U. would mean the 'Guernseyfication' of the U.K., which would then be a little country on the world scale. It would isolate itself and become a trading post and arbitration place at Europe's border.

I'm a child of provincial France.

If I was British, I would vote resolutely 'remain' because it's in the U.K.'s interest.

I want to be the president of all the people of France, for the patriots facing the threat of nationalism.

If the U.K. wants a commercial access treaty to the European market, the British must contribute to the European budget like the Norwegians and the Swiss do. If London doesn't want that, then it must be a total exit.

What we need is much more flexibility for the labour markets.

The refugee crisis is a challenge for the whole of Europe, and Europe - it's a very fair point to say it's not just a security issue. It's also an economic issue.

If people do not believe in Europe and in the euro area, it must be dismantled.

I learned the life of business, commerce - it's an art.

The best way to afford a suit is to work.

We need to restore democracy and sovereignty in Europe.

Sovereignty is not just at the national level; that's the mistake of Brexit that other people make.

If approval was a criterion in this country, nothing would ever get done.

Honesty compels me to say that I am not a socialist. But so what?