Emmanuel Macron Quotes

I think Brexit is disappointing from an economic perspective.

A U.K. vote to exit the European Union could have significant economic repercussions.

The U.K. outside of the European Union will end up being a mid-sized economy, somewhere in the middle of the Atlantic Ocean, in neither America nor Europe.

In retrospect, the populist panic may have been overblown. Regarding Brexit, for example, the shock exaggerated its meaning. Because it was so unexpected, it became a sensation.

Brexit stops Britain from being Great Britain.

Brexit is a major concern for us, and it should be a major concern for all of us who live in the U.K. and operate out of the U.K.

I don't think the U.K. should leave the E.U. I think it would be a disaster for our economy, and it would lead to a decade of economic and political uncertainty at a time when the tectonic plates of global success are moving.

Whether it is a hard or soft Brexit, there are opportunities here for us to be had.

I don't think the British people really knew the ramifications of what would happen after Brexit or not.

What's important is that we do this in the right timescale to get the right deal for the U.K. We shouldn't invoke Article 50 immediately.

I was fully aware of the challenges facing London before I was elected as mayor, but I didn't anticipate the issue that is likely to define my time as mayor - Brexit.

I worry about the direction of the U.K. and U.K. politics and governance in the event of a Brexit.

If you look at it ideologically, I would say Brexit is not something that probably is good for the world.

However painful or regrettable Brexit may be, it will not stop the E.U. as it moves to the future; we need to move forward.

We must stand up for the principle of parliamentary democracy and not allow the government's failure in the Brexit process to be a licence for the U.K. to crash out of the E.U. without an agreement.

We cannot afford to let Brexit slip away - the political price, the reputational damage to the country is too great.

I went to bed on the night of Brexit, of that vote for leaving the E.U., and I said to everyone it will be a 70/30: nobody wants to leave the E.U. I woke up on the bus in Glastonbury, and everybody had their heads in their hands. They could not believe it. I could not believe it.

The U.K. voted for Brexit and a lot of weak-willed, lily-livered people will say 'yeah but the people did not know what they were voting for, they had no idea of what this was going to entail.' Those are the people who are saying 'lets get a second referendum, let's make the people aware this time that there is, in fact, a lot more to this.'

So much of the agenda behind Brexit has been murky.

Brexit is turning out to be a really really bad meal. We ordered steak and chips and we've now got some raw chicken that smells bad.

I said a vote to leave would be a Brexit tax. I couldn't think of anything stronger than that.

I think one of the laughable things about poor old Brexit is that they're so cross - they're furious with everyone. But this isn't a cross country; this is a generous and optimistic country.

I believe that Brexit, whether it's a bad deal or no deal, is a big deal - too big for anyone to ignore - but it's not a done deal.

Brexit is the most complex and difficult political decision our country has had to take in mine and many other lifetimes.

After 43 years of membership, exiting the E.U. was never going to be easy.