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In an election, one needs both hope and audacity.

Francois Hollande

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Francois Hollande
Age: 70
Born: 1954
Born: August 12
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Paris
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François Gérard Georges Nicolas Hollande
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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.
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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.
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Nothing was given to me, nothing was entrusted to me, nothing was assigned to me. Everything I have, I took by right.
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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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There is just one France... one single nation, united in the same destiny.
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Terrorism fuels itself from all kinds of illicit trafficking: drugs, weapons, human beings.
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We have chased away the clouds, the sky is all 'rose.'
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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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If I become president, France will not continue with the same policies as under Nicolas Sarkozy - both in domestic policy and in foreign and European policy.
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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.
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I am attached to the French language. I will defend the ubiquitous use of French.
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Mitterrand had a sense for symbols, and he was the first Socialist president since 1958. He wanted to show that there is historical continuity, a connection with the great figures of French history.
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Austerity need not be Europe's fate.
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My adversary is the world of finance.
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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.
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No one imposes things on anyone in Europe. That's not my notion, nor is it my temperament. The EU has always functioned under the banner of respect, equilibrium and trust.
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The German-French friendship is indispensable for Europe. And I will never let myself be carried away to making statements that would change it.
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If we don't manage to find not just a compromise but a lasting peace agreement, we know perfectly well what the scenario will be. It has a name, it's called war.
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I am proud to have been capable of giving people hope again.
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To me, it's important to preserve proximity to the people. I wouldn't do anything pretentious, and nothing that hurts the people who voted for me. Triumphalism isn't my thing.
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