French - Statesman | August 12, 1954 -
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.
Francois Hollande
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I am the president of the youth of France.
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There is just one France... one single nation, united in the same destiny.
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The British have been particularly shy about the issues of financial regulation, and attentive only to the interests of the City - hence their reluctance to see the introduction of a tax on financial transactions and tax harmonisation in Europe.
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I want to initiate a change in society in the long term.
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I am proud to have been capable of giving people hope again.
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Austerity need not be Europe's fate.
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That is now my mission: to provide a European vision of growth, employment, prosperity - in one word, our future.
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Is France a northern European export powerhouse, or a Mediterranean indebted and dependent economy? Yes to both.
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I gave myself an objective, to be the second president from Correze and finally to be the successor to Francois Mitterrand.
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Nicolas Sarkozy said he could see a wave rising. For once he was right. The wave's coming; it's high, its strong, and it's going to smack him in the face.
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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.
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