Francois Hollande Quotes

• 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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  Topics in Justice

  Tags in Position, Favorable

• We have chased away the clouds, the sky is all ‘rose.’

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  Topics in Uncategorized

  Tags in Rose

• There’s always a risk when the candidate becomes president: Will he deliver what is expected of him?

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  Topics in Risk

  Tags in President, Expected

• There is just one France… one single nation, united in the same destiny.

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  Topics in Uncategorized

  Tags in Nation, Destiny

• The British have been particularly shy about the issues of financial regulation, and attentive only to the interests of the City – hence their reluctance to see the introduction of a tax on financial transactions and tax harmonisation in Europe.

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  Topics in Uncategorized

  Tags in Financial, Interests

• That is now my mission: to provide a European vision of growth, employment, prosperity – in one word, our future.

  Francois Hollande

  Topics in Future

  Tags in Employment, Mission

• Nothing was given to me, nothing was entrusted to me, nothing was assigned to me. Everything I have, I took by right.

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  Topics in Uncategorized

  Tags in Nothing, Everything

• Nicolas Sarkozy said he could see a wave rising. For once he was right. The wave’s coming; it’s high, its strong, and it’s going to smack him in the face.

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  Topics in Uncategorized

  Tags in Strong, Rising

• 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.

  Francois Hollande

  Topics in Uncategorized

  Tags in Finance, Elected

• My obligation, if I become president, is to give another direction to Europe than the one that is being forced upon us today.

  Francois Hollande

  Topics in Uncategorized

  Tags in President, Direction

• My dear citizens, fellow citizens, French people, this 6th of May, have just chosen change by bringing me the presidency of the French republic. I feel the honor, which has been given to me and the task, the important task faced beyond – in front of you to serve my country.

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  Topics in Uncategorized

  Tags in Citizens, Republic, Important

• Is France a northern European export powerhouse, or a Mediterranean indebted and dependent economy? Yes to both.

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  Topics in Uncategorized

  Tags in Dependent, Export

• I’m going to gather all the French people who want change.

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  Topics in Uncategorized

  Tags in People, Change

• 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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  Topics in Uncategorized

  Tags in Behaviour, Chance, Give

• I want to initiate a change in society in the long term.

  Francois Hollande

  Topics in Society

  Tags in Change

• I have given myself one objective, to be the long-awaited successor to Francois Mitterrand.

  Francois Hollande

  Topics in Uncategorized

  Tags in Myself, Objective

• I gave myself an objective, to be the second president from Correze and finally to be the successor to Francois Mitterrand.

  Francois Hollande

  Topics in Uncategorized

  Tags in President, Myself

• I don’t want to drive the markets crazy. I don’t want to create trouble, but rather order and rules and norms. We have to struggle against financial excesses, those who speculate with sovereign debt, those who develop financial products which have done so much harm.

  Francois Hollande

  Topics in Uncategorized

  Tags in Create, Struggle, Financial

• I could have made a fortune in cheeseburgers, but I finally chose politics.

  Francois Hollande

  Topics in Politics

  Tags in Finally, Fortune

• I commit myself to serve my country.

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  Topics in Uncategorized

  Tags in Commit, Myself

Francois Hollande (28)

Birth:	12th August, 1954
Nationality:	French
Profession:	President

About

François Hollande is a French politician who is the current President of France and ex-officio Co-Prince of Andorra. He was previously the First Secretary of the French Socialist Party from 1997 to 2008, and a Deputy of the National Assembly of France for Corrèze's 1st Constituency from 1988 to 1993 and again from 1997 to 2012.

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Births

• 1951 - Evan Welling Thomas III
• 1930 - Paul Mazursky
• 1939 - Nicole Hollander
• 1940 - Al Pacino
• 1873 - Walter de la Mare

Deaths

• 1998 - Konstantinos Karamanlis
• 2010 - Alan Sillitoe
• 1595 - Torquato Tasso
• 2004 - Thom Gunn
• 1988 - Valerie Solanas