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

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

I attach the greatest importance to an amplification of the peace efforts in the Middle East. I would also like to see a greater dialogue between the U.S. and the EU.

My dear citizens, fellow citizens, French people, this 6th of May, have just chosen change by bringing me the presidency of the French republic. I feel the honor, which has been given to me and the task, the important task faced beyond - in front of you to serve my country.

What the French want is coherence, stability and justice. If I am in a favorable position today, it's because my fellow citizens want to make the effort to straighten out the country, and at the same time they want it to be just and equitable.

We have chased away the clouds, the sky is all 'rose.'

In front of you I commit myself to serve my country with devotion.