Statesman

The best thing the Democrats can do is to get Hillary Clinton elected.

China... has the capacity to ensure its stability and growth.

We want the United Kingdom to remain in the European Union.

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

I won't wait until the end of my term to say I made mistakes at the beginning. That's too late. I will try to adopt the proper behaviour, if the French give me the chance, right from the start.

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.

There must be protection of the external borders.

Our only goal is to strengthen the opposition and to avoid the dilemma whereby we only have the choice between Bashar Assad and al-Qaeda.

I want the French people to respect values that allow each individual to practice his or her faith, but in the frame of our common rules of secularism.

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.

We find ourselves in a difficult situation in Europe. There's a crisis, weak growth, unemployment... my duty is to ensure that by the end of my mandate France is in a better state than it was at the beginning.

France is the bridge between northern Europe and southern Europe. I refuse any division. If Europe has been reunified, it's not for it to then fall into egotism or 'each for one's own'. Our duty is to set common rules around the principles of responsibility and solidarity.

The Republic will destroy terrorism.

The first time that I went to the United States was in 1974. I was 20 years old. America was in crisis.

In August 2012, the international community should have been far more determined in dealing with the Bashar Assad regime.

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.

Not in the constitution, but I would propose a law to the French parliament that provides for reducing the budget deficit year by year, until we have reached a balanced budget by 2017.

We will continue to hit those who threaten us.

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 need intelligence services to fight against terrorism, but they have to respect the principles of good relationships between allies and protect personal, confidential data.