We have chased away the clouds, the sky is all 'rose.'
Francois Hollande
Long live the Republic, and long live France.
Nothing was given to me, nothing was entrusted to me, nothing was assigned to me. Everything I have, I took by right.
I bow down in memory of the victims, and I come to tell my Armenian friends that we will never forget the tragedies that your people has endured.
The fight against global warming is a humanitarian issue - how the planet can be preserved - and it is also an issue of considerable economic importance, of what we call green growth.
The transatlantic relationship is vital for both our countries: France will remain a reliable ally of the United States. Nevertheless, ally does not mean aligned.
I am not deaf. I hear the anger. I see the dissatisfaction, and I have to go faster.
My adversary is the world of finance.
To resolve the climate crisis, good will, statements of intent are not enough. We are at breaking point.
I think that France has not made it clear enough recently to our German friends how important it is to introduce euro bonds as a tool against speculation. And how the necessary budget discipline needs to be accompanied by growth.
The best thing the Democrats can do is to get Hillary Clinton elected.
I am for a clear distinction between public and private life. I believe private matters should be regulated in private and I have asked those close to me to respect this.
A compromise appears out of reach on the stripping of terrorists' nationality.
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.
Islamist terrorism has declared war against us, against France, Europe, the entire world.
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.
In an election, one needs both hope and audacity.
I commit myself to serve my country.
I am attached to the French language. I will defend the ubiquitous use of French.
If Europe does not advance, it will fall or even be wiped out from the world map... My duty is to bring Europe out of its lethargy.
There must be pressure on Moscow so that we have negotiations. Moscow will not succeed by unilaterally backing Bashar al-Assad.
Is France a northern European export powerhouse, or a Mediterranean indebted and dependent economy? Yes to both.
I am the president of the youth of France.
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.
Everyone says Francois Mitterrand had huge charisma. But before he was president they used to call him badly dressed, old, archaic and say he knew nothing about the economy... until the day he was elected. It's called universal suffrage. When you're elected, you become the person that embodies France.
France needs to improve training and education and the level of skills of its workforce.
France, after the month of May, will share trust with the current leadership of the United States which, on many subjects, has tended to take useful positions in our view.
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.
The Republic will destroy terrorism.
The extremists wanted to divide France; it came together.
Transatlantic links are very important.
If there is not a united policy, this mechanism will not work: it will collapse, and it will... undoubtedly be the end of Schengen, the return of national borders.
If the discussion centres on the essential principle of the E.U., the free movement of people and the ability to make decisions together, in that case, we don't want treaty change.
I don't want to drive the markets crazy. I don't want to create trouble, but rather order and rules and norms. We have to struggle against financial excesses, those who speculate with sovereign debt, those who develop financial products which have done so much harm.
My obligation, if I become president, is to give another direction to Europe than the one that is being forced upon us today.
There's always a risk when the candidate becomes president: Will he deliver what is expected of him?
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.
There is just one France... one single nation, united in the same destiny.
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.
I want to initiate a change in society in the long term.
I am proud to have been capable of giving people hope again.
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.
Austerity need not be Europe's fate.
That is now my mission: to provide a European vision of growth, employment, prosperity - in one word, our future.
I gave myself an objective, to be the second president from Correze and finally to be the successor to Francois Mitterrand.
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.
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.
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.
Each country has a soul, and France's soul is equality.
I could have made a fortune in cheeseburgers, but I finally chose politics.
