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 against financial excesses, those who speculate with sovereign debt, those who develop financial products which have done so much harm.

I could have made a fortune in cheeseburgers, but I finally chose politics.

That is now my mission: to provide a European vision of growth, employment, prosperity - in one word, our future.

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.

Today, Paris is the capital of the world.

I am attached to the French language. I will defend the ubiquitous use of French.

My obligation, if I become president, is to give another direction to Europe than the one that is being forced upon us today.