Emmanuel Macron Quotes

My main concern is the political dimension of European integration. This is one of the most important issues of all, as far as I'm concerned. It has to do with our past, with our sensitivity, perhaps even our hypersensitivity in this regard.

We need less theoretical debate and more practical application and acknowledgment of what Europe can and does do so that it is brought home to people in a relevant way.

This much is true: When we created the euro, it wasn't possible to create a political union along with it. People weren't ready for that. But since then, they've grown more willing to go in that direction. It's a process, one that is sometimes laborious and sometimes slow. But it's important to keep the populations involved.

Whatever else may divide us, Europe is our common home; a common fate has linked us through the centuries, and it continues to link us today.

Europe has a lot of strength. We need to pool that strength, and I am very much in favour of that - more of a deeper political union.

In the light of these treaties we are Europeans only.

At German unification, we were lucky to get so much help from West Germany. Now, we have the good fortune of being able to help each other in Europe.

It's not only the British voters who have doubts about European cooperation. There is skepticism in many other E.U. countries.

I think us leaving would have an enormous and bad effect on the rest of the EU. The EU would respond by deepening integration and becoming more of a 'political project'. It would not only be damaging ourselves but also the kind of Europe we want.

To make Europe more effective is a worthwhile objective. To make Europe less important in your calculations is a big mistake.

What every generation must do is try to make Europe better than it was in the past.

We have to make the argument that the only economically sound place to be is within Europe - we have to remember, it's history again, that there are reasons we bound ourselves together as a set of European nations and it all came out of the second world war.

I'm a big believer in Europe.

The emergence of a unified Europe is one of the most revolutionary events of our time.

It is always said that Europe is a project of the elite. That's incorrect.

Europe has never existed. One must genuinely create Europe.

The bureaucratic method of building an integrated Europe has exhausted its potential.

Europe is... a monument to the vanity of individuals, a programme whose inevitable destiny is failure.

Germany will continue to play a central - perhaps even a more important - role in the European Union. I think that we will all miss the pragmatic approach of the British, however, particularly in those long nights of negotiation.

I like this idea of the re-foundation of the European Union, maybe it can be done, because Europe - I do not say is unique, but it has a force, a culture, a history that cannot be wasted, and we must do everything so that the European Union has the strength and also the inspiration to make it go forward.

Better fifty years of Europe than a cycle of Cathay.

There is no future for the people of Europe other than in union.

We are involved in a constitution-building process of historic importance. The Convention should mark a new stage in European integration.

If there are further steps to European integration, the people should have their say at a general election or in a referendum.

I am, however, deeply saddened by this [Brexit] vote by the British electorate. But I respect their decision. What is crucial now is that we focus very precisely on what Europe can do for people: stimulate investment, create jobs and together ensure the safety and security of our citizens.