Emmanuel Macron Quotes

What we need is a common goal for more Europe.

I would wish for more British involvement in Europe, not less.

France is the bridge between northern Europe and southern Europe. I refuse any division. If Europe has been reunified, it's not for it to then fall into egotism or 'each for one's own'. Our duty is to set common rules around the principles of responsibility and solidarity.

I am not, never have been, and never will be a politician. But I want to tell you the United States has always been proud of having the support of the United Kingdom, of keeping Britain in Europe. We need Britain in Europe.

I believe that in Europe, we have a collective leadership.

We cannot allow events that might divide us in a small way to distract from the common values and the common interests that unite us in big ways.

Our common responsibility is to put Europe's interests first.

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

You can suddenly have a series of countries waking up and saying, 'I want the same status as the Brits,' which will be, de facto, the dismantling of the rest of Europe.

The strength of Europe at the end of the day has always been that we stuck together and that demands a great amount - probably even more so than in the past - of discussions, of balancing, of bringing along individual countries.

My struggle led to the reunification of Germany and the creation of the state of Europe. We destroyed the borders; globalisation is on the horizon.

Among peoples who are geographically grouped together like the peoples of Europe there must exist a sort of federal link. It is this link which I wish to endeavour to establish.

The decisive factor for the future of Europe - and before all things, for the 'restoration' of Europe - will be whether political thought and national feelings are influenced by the reality of internationalism.

I am not a British isolationist. I don't just want a better deal for Britain. I want a better deal for Europe too.

I take notice of those who have argued consistently for the modernisation of the E.U., but so many of the skeptics in Britain are just hostile to the whole European idea.

In Europe it is particularly important that we build good relations to everyone who holds political responsibility because Europe can only be build together.

I don't want a Europe that is just a free-trade area attached to NATO. Even less do I want a Europe where it's everyone against everyone, and social and fiscal dumping replaces solidarity.

We should seek to cooperate with Europe, not to divide Europe to a fictitious new and a fictitious old.

We're all taking part in this solidarity. The French, the Germans, just like all the Europeans in the ESM. Let's stop thinking that there's only one country who's going to pay for the others. That's false.

You know, it's been President Clinton's dream that we'll have finally a fully integrated Europe; and the steps that NATO will take to expand to the East, that's a commitment.

Europe should speak more effectively and clearly with one voice in the world.

Limitless enlargement of Europe means the death of political Europe.

Europe has just too many countries who have hated each other for too long to pull it apart and very little to hold it together.

Had the rest of America passively looked on, while a sister colony was subjugated, the same fate would gradually have overtaken all. The safety of the whole depends upon the mutual protection of every part. If the sword of oppression be permitted to lop off one limb without opposition, reiterated strokes will soon dismember the whole body. Hence it was the duty and interest of all the colonies to succor and support the one which was suffering.

[Europe needs] the efficiency and … simplicity of a single state.