Francois Hollande Quotes

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• That is now my mission: to provide a European vision of growth, employment, prosperity - in one word, our future.
• As a president I will be like the candidate that I am, a respectful candidate, a rallying candidate, a normal candidate for a normal presidency,…
• 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…
• There cannot be prosperity without security.
• Terrorism fuels itself from all kinds of illicit trafficking: drugs, weapons, human beings.
• 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…
• Today, Paris is the capital of the world.
• We are near, very near, to an end to the eurozone crisis... The worst - in the sense of the fear of the eurozone breaking…
• 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…
• There's always a risk when the candidate becomes president: Will he deliver what is expected of him?
• 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…
• There is just one France... one single nation, united in the same destiny.
• 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…
• 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…
• If I become president, France will not continue with the same policies as under Nicolas Sarkozy - both in domestic policy and in foreign and…
• I perfectly understood President Obama's attitude throughout the French presidential campaign. He had no reason to distance himself from Nicolas Sarkozy. It's the basic solidarity…
• 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…
• 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…
• 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…
• Everyone says Francois Mitterrand had huge charisma. But before he was president they used to call him badly dressed, old, archaic and say he knew…

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