Emmanuel Macron

I have a vision of my country, and I cannot sit and watch things pass by.

The challenge is to open a new page in our political life and to take action so that everyone is able to find his or her place in France and in Europe.

Believe in individual initiatives, in courage, in risk.

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

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.

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.

We are a continent of refugees, and if you say we can't integrate refugees, that's not consistent with our values, even if borders cannot be wide open.

In a common project, we can bring together well-meaning people from the Left and the Right.

To avoid the trap of Europe fragmenting on the economy, security, and identity, we have to return to the original promises of the European project: peace, prosperity and freedom. We should have a real, adult, democratic debate about the Europe we want.

Europe and the world are waiting for us to defend the spirit of Enlightenment, threatened in so many places.

Europe and the world are waiting for us to defend the spirit of the enlightenment everywhere.

My key message is be innovative, be ambitious; think global and big on day one.