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

Francois Hollande

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Francois Hollande
Age: 70
Born: 1954
Born: August 12
Lawyer
Magistrate
Official
Politician
Statesman
Statesperson
Paris
France
François Gérard Georges Nicolas Hollande
Francois Hollande
Hollande
Ubiquitous
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Defend
French
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I would like a UK fully engaged in Europe, but I can't decide in place of the British. I see that for the moment they want to be more in retreat.
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My mission is to put France back on its feet. The priority is employment. Efforts have to be made, but those efforts must be made fairly.
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There cannot be prosperity without security.
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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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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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My adversary is the world of finance.
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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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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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That is now my mission: to provide a European vision of growth, employment, prosperity - in one word, our future.
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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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Each country has a soul, and France's soul is equality.
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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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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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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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I perfectly understood President Obama's attitude throughout the French presidential campaign. He had no reason to distance himself from Nicolas Sarkozy. It's the basic solidarity that leaders who worked together owe to each other.
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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.
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In an election, one needs both hope and audacity.
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I know where I'm going and I have told the French. I am sure if hope is there, we will be able to put France back on its feet to live better in five years than we do today.
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One thing that makes France different from other countries is the tradition of social solidarity. People from all backgrounds and political positions are willing to contribute for services and protection of society as a whole - but on the condition that money is being spent effectively and that everyone is paying their part.
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