Emmanuel Macron Quotes

The perfect bureaucrat … is the man who manages to make no decisions and escape all responsibility.

Rules should not be barriers; they should be guides.

You can't just decide you want to do this or that. You have to be invited.

You should not bring more items and hurdles to the obstacle course.

For some reason, my whole life has been, 'You can't do this, you can't do that.'

I don't sit there and speculate. I'm not that sort of person. It wastes time, actually.

Indecision and delays are the parents of failure.

Problems are only opportunities with thorns on them.

I am part of a political class that is paralyzed by the prospect of risk.

Something there is that does not love a wall.

A conference is a gathering of important people who singly can do nothing, but together can decide that nothing can be done.

A conference is a gathering of important people who can singly do nothing, but together can decide that nothing can be done.

You've outlined the problem very well. Solutions are much more difficult to come by.

Liberty is the absence of impediments—barriers.

There's a can't-do attitude in this town [Washington DC] that I haven't seen anywhere else ... It's like running through a field of marshmallows in terms of getting anything done.

[Cost-benefit analysis is used:] ... to produce lofty academic-sounding reasons for endless inaction.

… test everything, and retain whatever is good.

There is always a reason you can’t do something.

Every challenge has its own unique problems.

Every condition must be favorable, or I do not work and will not.

Rules are simply obstacles to be jumped, like in a horse race: higher and higher every time.

The trouble for lots of politicians is they worry so much about everybody liking every single thing that they do.

There are always going to be questions asked when there is competition. As long as you can answer those questions, then you are deserving of a place.

I've turned down many pictures, mostly because I didn't like them.

There are moments in your life where you realize you could do nothing, but if you do, you'll probably regret it forever.