During a term in office there are highs and lows, but what counts is that the goal is set as well as the means to achieve it, and the force we put into getting results.

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

Is France a northern European export powerhouse, or a Mediterranean indebted and dependent economy? Yes to both.

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.

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.

Austerity need not be Europe's fate.

Nothing was given to me, nothing was entrusted to me, nothing was assigned to me. Everything I have, I took by right.