Believe in individual initiatives, in courage, in risk.
Emmanuel MacronRead
Political experience is political inefficacy.
Interpretation
Political experience often leads to ineffective governance.
Emmanuel Macron's quote suggests that having extensive experience in politics does not necessarily equate to effective leadership or successful outcomes. It implies that those entrenched in political systems may become accustomed to inefficiencies and may not inspire meaningful change, highlighting the paradox where experience does not guarantee positive results in governance.
In practice
In a discussion about the ineffectiveness of career politicians.
Believe in individual initiatives, in courage, in risk.
Europe and the world are waiting for us to defend the spirit of the enlightenment everywhere.
A romantic or classical view of the French approach would have been to say, 'It's a French company; let no one attack it. Let's block any merger. But the reality is Alcatel-Lucent is not a French company; it's a global company. Its main markets are China and the U.S. Its ownership is foreign; most of its managers aren't French.
Popularity isn't my compass. Unless it can help one to act, to be understood... that's what counts.
Our mission... it will be difficult, it will take time, it will be demanding for all men and women... will be to act in such a way that French people of the Muslim faith are always more proud of being French than of being Muslim.
I will defend Europe; it is our civilisation which is at stake... I will work to rebuild ties between Europe and its citizens.
Every government is a parliament of whores. The trouble is, in a democracy, the whores are us.
The Prime Minister has an absolute genius for putting flamboyant labels on empty luggage.
The necessity of reciprocal checks in the exercise of political power, by dividing and distributing it into different depositories, and constituting each the guardian of the public weal against invasions by the others, has been evinced by experiments ancient and modern, some of them in our country and under our own eyes.
Politics is not a bad profession. If you succeed there are many rewards, if you disgrace yourself you can always write a book.
I dont think that unless a greater effort is made by the Government to win popular support that the war can be won out there. In the final analysis, it is their war. They are the ones who have to win it or lose it. We can help them, we can give them equipment, we can send our men out there as advisers, but they have to win it, the people of Viet-Nam, against the Communists.
Part of the challenge of being a black Republican anywhere is that you start off with people walking in with chips on their shoulder trying to figure out what is wrong with you.
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