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.

As a president I will be like the candidate that I am, a respectful candidate, a rallying candidate, a normal candidate for a normal presidency, at the service of the Republic.

What is at stake is preserving our relations with the United States. They should not be changed because of what has happened. But trust has to be restored and reinforced.

I gave myself an objective, to be the second president from Correze and finally to be the successor to Francois Mitterrand.

France, after the month of May, will share trust with the current leadership of the United States which, on many subjects, has tended to take useful positions in our view.

I don't want to leave my successor and my children to pay for France's debt.

There's always a risk when the candidate becomes president: Will he deliver what is expected of him?