Quotes from Emmanuel Macron

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

The strategy we must follow is to defend the special relationship between Great Britain and Europe and, more specifically, between Europe and France.

We have to be extremely strict on the implementation of Brexit so there is a common approach between member states. We must avoid a sector-by-sector or country-by-country approach, and ask the U.K. to be clear.

We need to go faster on structural reforms in France.

We have a lack of growth in Europe, in eurozone, and in France, and we are struggling hard to recover and restore this growth.

Globalization can be a great opportunity.

I'm in a left-wing government, unashamedly... but I also want to work with people from the Right who commit to the same values.

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

A Left that does nothing achieves nothing.

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

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.

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

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