Europe is not a choice, it is a necessity, but it needs to be rethought, refounded.

The French people need to have all the facts so they can choose. And I won't be running away from it or hiding from it.

Laissez-faire is finished. The all-powerful market that always knows best is finished.

I committed myself totally, fully, but I didn't succeed in convincing a majority of French... I didn't succeed in making the values we share win.

I understand that people might be poor if they don't have any work, but I don't accept that someone is poor if they've worked really hard.

A page is turning for me. I won't be candidate in legislative elections, nor in any elections to come.

We live in a world where people don't all have the same scruples, where all blows can be given, and where, in order to down somebody, all means can be used. Nothing will lead me astray from the path that I have chosen.