There is just one France... one single nation, united in the same destiny.

I think that France has not made it clear enough recently to our German friends how important it is to introduce euro bonds as a tool against speculation. And how the necessary budget discipline needs to be accompanied by growth.

An education program is, by definition, a societal program. Work should be done at school, rather than at home.

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.

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.

Each country has a soul, and France's soul is equality.

My goal is to put France back on its feet. I have to put this country back on its feet.