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 nothing about the economy until the day he was elected. It’s called universal suffrage. When you’re elected, you become the person that embodies France.
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.
I want to initiate a change in society in the long term.
I gave myself an objective, to be the second president from Correze and finally to be the successor to Francois Mitterrand.
I don’t want to leave my successor and my children to pay for France’s debt.
My adversary is the world of finance.
I am the president of the youth of France.
I am proud to have been capable of giving people hope again.
My goal is to put France back on its feet. I have to put this country back on its feet.
Each country has a soul, and France’s soul is equality.
To be influential in tomorrow’s world, to defend our values and our development model, France needs Europe and Europe needs France.
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.
My obligation, if I become president, is to give another direction to Europe than the one that is being forced upon us today.
Is France a northern European export powerhouse, or a Mediterranean indebted and dependent economy? Yes to both.
In an election, one needs both hope and audacity.
I’m going to gather all the French people who want change.
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.
We have chased away the clouds, the sky is all ‘rose.’
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.
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.