Before you, I engage myself to serve my country with the devotion and the exemplary that this post demands. I understand responsibilities of the job and, as such, I give a republican salute to Nicolas Sarkozy who has led France for 5 years and who deserves all of our respect.

To me, it's important to preserve proximity to the people. I wouldn't do anything pretentious, and nothing that hurts the people who voted for me. Triumphalism isn't my thing.

My real adversary has no name, no face, no party. It will never be elected, yet it governs - the adversary is the world of finance.

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.

Terrorism fuels itself from all kinds of illicit trafficking: drugs, weapons, human beings.

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

We are a big country, with lots of advantages and history. We are proud to be French. We have to call on patriotism at this time... to ask for an effort in the battle against debt.