Top 100 Francois Hollande Quotes
#2. If there is not a united policy, this mechanism will not work: it will collapse, and it will ... undoubtedly be the end of Schengen, the return of national borders.
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#4. 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.
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#5. 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.
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#6. I don't want to leave my successor and my children to pay for France's debt.
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#7. Whoever pays should control; whoever pays should sanction. I agree. But budgetary union should be completed by a partial mutualisation of debts through eurobonds.
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#8. In my own situation, I cannot show anything ... And I believe that everybody now understands that, president or not president, one is entitled to have a private life. But of course when one is president, this creates duties and obligations.
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#9. What is happening in the Sahel for the past several months is that terrorists have structured themselves, have installed themselves. It's not simply a menace for west Africa.
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#10. I hope Britain stays in the European Union, but I don't want to decide for the British.
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#11. We're all taking part in this solidarity. The French, the Germans, just like all the Europeans in the ESM. Let's stop thinking that there's only one country who's going to pay for the others. That's false.
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#14. A country outside the euro zone cannot have a veto over countries in the euro zone.
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#16. I am not deaf. I hear the anger. I see the dissatisfaction, and I have to go faster.
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#17. If we don't manage to find not just a compromise but a lasting peace agreement, we know perfectly well what the scenario will be. It has a name, it's called war.
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#18. Being in the European Union has its advantages, and I think that is what the British are beginning to understand, what those who are tempted by the Brexit are going to reflect upon.
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#20. The United Nations will be at the heart of our international activities. France will assume its full responsibilities at the Security Council by putting its status at the service of peace, respect for human rights and development.
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#21. There cannot be any concessions on the matter of human rights or the criteria for visa liberalisation.
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#22. France has been struck on the day of her national holiday - the 14th of July, Bastille Day - the symbol of liberty, because human rights are denied by fanatics, and France is clearly their target.
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#23. It will be very important for us to continue to keep up the necessary pressure, the necessary vigilance, for there to be peace in Ukraine, our trust in the goodwill of President (Vladimir) Putin is limited. It is why we have to maintain our decision about sanctions.
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#24. The transatlantic relationship is vital for both our countries: France will remain a reliable ally of the United States. Nevertheless, ally does not mean aligned.
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#25. We need intelligence services to fight against terrorism, but they have to respect the principles of good relationships between allies and protect personal, confidential data.
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#26. Everyone must be in the same competitive situation, including on the fiscal level.
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#27. France is no longer herself when she is folded in on herself, tormented by ignorance and intolerance. The country would plunge into decline if it refused to be itself, if it was afraid of the future, afraid of the world.
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#28. To me, it's important to preserve proximity to the people. I wouldn't do anything pretentious, and nothing that hurts the people who voted for me. Triumphalism isn't my thing.
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#29. China ... has the capacity to ensure its stability and growth.
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#30. 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.
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#31. Whatever happened during the French presidential campaign will leave no hard feelings. I perfectly understand why Angela Merkel supported Nicolas Sarkozy because of the action they have taken together, even though I have questioned its results, and because of their shared political sensibility.
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#32. Is France a northern European export powerhouse, or a Mediterranean indebted and dependent economy? Yes to both.
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#33. There are tensions abroad where people don't understand our attachment to the freedom of speech, we've seen the protests, and I would say that in France all beliefs are respected.
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#34. My dear citizens, fellow citizens, French people, this 6th of May, have just chosen change by bringing me the presidency of the French republic. I feel the honor, which has been given to me and the task, the important task faced beyond - in front of you to serve my country.
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#35. Islamist terrorism has declared war against us, against France, Europe, the entire world.
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#37. The first time that I went to the United States was in 1974. I was 20 years old. America was in crisis.
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#39. I attach the greatest importance to an amplification of the peace efforts in the Middle East. I would also like to see a greater dialogue between the U.S. and the EU.
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#40. Terrorism fuels itself from all kinds of illicit trafficking: drugs, weapons, human beings.
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#41. We are near, very near, to an end to the eurozone crisis ... The worst - in the sense of the fear of the eurozone breaking up - is over. But the best isn't there yet.
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#42. An education program is, by definition, a societal program. Work should be done at school, rather than at home.
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#43. We are a big country, with lots of advantages and history. We are proud to be French. We have to call on patriotism at this time ... to ask for an effort in the battle against debt.
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#45. To be influential in tomorrow's world, to defend our values and our development model, France needs Europe and Europe needs France.
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#47. Nothing was given to me, nothing was entrusted to me, nothing was assigned to me. Everything I have, I took by right.
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#48. I am attached to the French language. I will defend the ubiquitous use of French.
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#49. France, after the month of May, will share trust with the current leadership of the United States which, on many subjects, has tended to take useful positions in our view.
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#50. What the terrorists want is to scare us and fill us with dread.
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#51. France isn't just any country in Europe, and its president is not an ordinary leader in the world. Sometimes directing or leading the way is not enough, he has to initiate policies, as Nicolas Sarkozy was able to demonstrate during his term.
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#52. France is the bridge between northern Europe and southern Europe. I refuse any division. If Europe has been reunified, it's not for it to then fall into egotism or 'each for one's own'. Our duty is to set common rules around the principles of responsibility and solidarity.
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#53. No one imposes things on anyone in Europe. That's not my notion, nor is it my temperament. The EU has always functioned under the banner of respect, equilibrium and trust.
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#54. We find ourselves in a difficult situation in Europe. There's a crisis, weak growth, unemployment ... my duty is to ensure that by the end of my mandate France is in a better state than it was at the beginning.
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#55. It is intolerable that in our country citizens should feel so upset and under assault because of their religious choice that they would conclude that they have to hide.
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#56. I can understand countries don't want to join the euro, but they cannot impede the consolidation and strengthening of the eurozone.
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#57. 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.
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#58. A jolt is necessary. Europe must reaffirm it values of freedom, solidarity, peace. The EU must be understood and controlled by its citizens. I will do everything to secure profound change rather than decline.
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#59. What the French want is coherence, stability and justice. If I am in a favorable position today, it's because my fellow citizens want to make the effort to straighten out the country, and at the same time they want it to be just and equitable.
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#60. I don't want to drive the markets crazy. I don't want to create trouble, but rather order and rules and norms. We have to struggle against financial excesses, those who speculate with sovereign debt, those who develop financial products which have done so much harm.
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#61. We are absolutely clear: when these unaccompanied minors have a family link in the United Kingdom, then they must go to the United Kingdom. And they must go quickly and in an efficient fashion.
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#62. France wants Britain to remain in the E.U.; indeed, how can we imagine that friendly nation that is our ally and played a role on the international stage could be outside the E.U.?
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#63. I'm not a lukewarm European. I know that the German-French friendship is indispensable, no matter who the countries' leaders are.
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#66. I gave myself an objective, to be the second president from Correze and finally to be the successor to Francois Mitterrand.
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#67. The fight against global warming is a humanitarian issue - how the planet can be preserved - and it is also an issue of considerable economic importance, of what we call green growth.
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#68. The best thing the Democrats can do is to get Hillary Clinton elected.
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#70. Before you, I engage myself to serve my country with the devotion and the exemplary that this post demands. I understand responsibilities of the job and, as such, I give a republican salute to Nicolas Sarkozy who has led France for 5 years and who deserves all of our respect.
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#71. I know where I'm going and I have told the French. I am sure if hope is there, we will be able to put France back on its feet ... to live better in five years than we do today.
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#72. 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.
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#73. I must demonstrate I'm closer to people - a simpler, calmer presence, yet someone who can also make decisions and obtain promised results.
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#74. The partnerships between Schmidt and Giscard, Kohl and Mitterrand, and even between Chirac and Schroeder, have proved that political differences do not mean that we cannot work together.
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#75. When I travel officially ... and when I travel on a private basis, I have protection that is less suffocating. But I am protected everywhere.
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#76. Faced with terror, France must be strong, it must be great, and the state authorities must be firm.
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#78. Between France and Senegal there's a history. There's a language that we both speak. There's a culture that we share and to which both of our peoples have contributed. But beyond our history, beyond our language, beyond the links that have united us for so long, what unites us today is the future.
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#82. Our enemy in Syria is Daesh: it's not about containing but destroying this organisation.
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#84. A compromise appears out of reach on the stripping of terrorists' nationality.
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#85. 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.
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#86. I prefer that people remember me as a president who made reforms rather than a president who did nothing.
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#87. Europe needs an engine, and the Franco-German motor has provided that when the two nations have converged on important topics during critical periods. But that partnership shouldn't be a directorate for other EU members.
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#88. I have given myself one objective, to be the long-awaited successor to Francois Mitterrand.
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#89. I am for a clear distinction between public and private life. I believe private matters should be regulated in private and I have asked those close to me to respect this.
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#90. There's always a risk when the candidate becomes president: Will he deliver what is expected of him?
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#91. My obligation, if I become president, is to give another direction to Europe than the one that is being forced upon us today.
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#92. In August 2012, the international community should have been far more determined in dealing with the Bashar Assad regime.
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#93. There is just one France ... one single nation, united in the same destiny.
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#94. I don't like indecent, unearned wealth. But it is legitimate for an entrepreneur who has created something to make a good living.
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#95. 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.
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#96. The British have been particularly shy about the issues of financial regulation, and attentive only to the interests of the City - hence their reluctance to see the introduction of a tax on financial transactions and tax harmonisation in Europe.
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#97. Calling into question the Touquet deal on the pretext that Britain has voted for Brexit and will have to start negotiations to leave the union doesn't make sense.
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#98. I noticed that parts of the opposition have been hostile to any revision of the constitution.
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#99. People are tired of constant movement, improvisation, and wild scrambling when plans fail.
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#100. Symbols mean a lot in politics. They indicate a will and create new realities.
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