Macron: "My key message is be innovative, be ambitious; think global and big on day one."

Macron: "To avoid the trap of Europe fragmenting on the economy, security, and identity, we have to return to the original promises of the European project: peace, prosperity and freedom. We should have a real, adult, democratic debate about the Europe we want."

Macron: "I learned the life of business, commerce - it's an art."

Macron: "We are a continent of refugees, and if you say we can't integrate refugees, that's not consistent with our values, even if borders cannot be wide open."

Macron: "Globalization can be a great opportunity."

Macron: "What matters to me is to find rational solutions for those that are facing difficulties so that France preserves jobs and its ability to innovate."

Macron: "Through work, education, and culture, I will give hope to our country."

Macron: "It's about our ability precisely to integrate a people and offer jobs, and that, for me, is one of the key rationales of the reforms I'm pushing, and I'm a strong believer in that when you lift barriers, when you deregulate a lot of stuff, basically you improve the equality of opportunities."

Macron: "When politics is no longer a mission but a profession, politicians become more self-serving than public servants."

Macron: "As to the euro zone avant-garde, it must go towards more solidarity and integration: a common budget, a common borrowing capability, and fiscal convergence."

Macron: "France has to reform, to recover, and get more competitiveness."

Macron: "You need basically some accountability rules, which means democratic checks and balances at the euro zone level, and definitely, you have to increase convergence in terms of taxes, in terms of social affairs and so on."

Macron: "We need people who dream impossible things, who maybe fail, sometimes succeed, but in any case who have that ambition."

Macron: "The challenge is to open a new page in our political life and to take action so that everyone is able to find his or her place in France and in Europe."

Macron: "You have to learn to fight for things, to bear the burden and have a life which does not in any way correspond to other peoples' lives."

Macron: "I kept trying, proposing, pushing... If you want to succeed, you cannot leave work half done, and unfortunately, many things were left half done. The choice was made not to launch a second wave of economic reforms that I was proposing."

Macron: "I push reforms. I tell the truth to people, even when it's tough for the country."