Emmanuel Macron

When politics is no longer a mission but a profession, politicians become more self-serving than public servants. ”

We've created rigidities at the entrance point in artisanal occupations. ”

Without investment, you cannot have jobs. ”

Popularity isn't an objective in itself. I'm not in this game. ”

What we need is a common goal for more Europe. ”

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

Leaving the E.U. would mean the 'Guernseyfication' of the U.K., which would then be a little country on the world scale. It would isolate itself and become a trading post and arbitration place at Europe's border. ”

I want to help with Muslim integration. If you follow the line of Marine Le Pen, you create a civil war. ”

It's about our ability precisely to integrate a people and offer jobs, and that, for me, is one of the key rationales of the reforms I'm pushing, and I'm a strong believer in that when you lift barriers, when you deregulate a lot of stuff, basically you improve the equality of opportunities. ”

The refugee crisis is a challenge for the whole of Europe, and Europe - it's a very fair point to say it's not just a security issue. It's also an economic issue. ”