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François Hollande

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“No, he's dead, but he is in a long summary. So wake up, wake up. Be proud of you have been and you are and you can be in the future.”
2022-10-27 · The Rest Is Politics · 69. François Hollande on Putin, Obama, and Brexit · IDENTIFIED FROM THE TRANSCRIPT · source
“It could happen. It could happen everywhere except when the democracy is organized with big parties. Please, in Great Britain, keep your parties.”
2022-10-27 · The Rest Is Politics · 69. François Hollande on Putin, Obama, and Brexit · IDENTIFIED FROM THE TRANSCRIPT · source
“So if the political system is not rebuilt and two parties can appear that a solution on an alternative, the risk is to have Le Pen. In Italy it was the same problem, same model, the parties have no legitimate government with all the parties inside except one, the far right now far right is in power.”
2022-10-27 · The Rest Is Politics · 69. François Hollande on Putin, Obama, and Brexit · IDENTIFIED FROM THE TRANSCRIPT · source
“In your situation in Great Britain, you have many problems, many, many prime ministers too. But you have a chance, you have a political system with two big parties, which remain the political environment. If you are fed up of the conservative, you can choose Labour Party. You don't like a Labour Party, you have an opposition which can be tomorrow the government. In France now, the big parties, the political system have burst. Right party now has no leader, no line, no future except Sarkozy. And for the left, we have M ⁇ lenchon with carbon in worst? It's possible? And we have far right.”
2022-10-27 · The Rest Is Politics · 69. François Hollande on Putin, Obama, and Brexit · IDENTIFIED FROM THE TRANSCRIPT · source
“Proud of yourself. Yes. It's difficult to explain. We are not lazy, we are not liars. We work each day of the week. But it was also very difficult in the past. I think for the leaders... During all the 20th century, it was difficult too that democracy is a fight against animal spirits.”
2022-10-27 · The Rest Is Politics · 69. François Hollande on Putin, Obama, and Brexit · IDENTIFIED FROM THE TRANSCRIPT · source
“You have no holidays, no weekends never. So why to be committed proper of an elite is not to be considered, is to work for the prosperity and sovereignty and happiness of the people, we must be engaged, committed as before, even if it's more difficult now social medias are very harsh for the political system. So why to do in this way?”
2022-10-27 · The Rest Is Politics · 69. François Hollande on Putin, Obama, and Brexit · IDENTIFIED FROM THE TRANSCRIPT · source
“It's hard to be in politics. You are regarded on your private life. You don't have any revenues on wages in comparison of... Business, you can be defeated in election and have a difficulty”
2022-10-27 · The Rest Is Politics · 69. François Hollande on Putin, Obama, and Brexit · IDENTIFIED FROM THE TRANSCRIPT · source
“The lack of diversity, the main problem for the leadership, not only in public affairs, but also in the companies, private companies. So the same people who speak in the same circles, they don't know what is the reality of the society. But we have another problem now in France. elite wants to make politics. before one was a student, the main success was to be a member of the parliament, perhaps minister, and if it's possible president. Now in the elite system, politics is considered that the wrong way, the best way is to be in boards and economic circles, not in politics.”
2022-10-27 · The Rest Is Politics · 69. François Hollande on Putin, Obama, and Brexit · IDENTIFIED FROM THE TRANSCRIPT · source
“Yes. Yes. Nation state is in danger because we are the most powerful. He's a state or the big Amazon, Google, who is for the people, the most powerful system.”
2022-10-27 · The Rest Is Politics · 69. François Hollande on Putin, Obama, and Brexit · IDENTIFIED FROM THE TRANSCRIPT · source
“We have a problem with dictators. We have also the problem with big companies which don't respect any border, any vote, any legitimacy for Musk, the problem is not to have a success for the United States. It is outside of the United States. The technology is first and the leadership of big companies is more important than the vote of citizens.”
2022-10-27 · The Rest Is Politics · 69. François Hollande on Putin, Obama, and Brexit · IDENTIFIED FROM THE TRANSCRIPT · source
“Yes, it's a great danger. So we must say the trouser each time it's possible. I think that transparency, truth and confidence are the trust are the main arms in the democracy to convince. If you begin to lie that the risk is to be a lie at the others because it's a risk to give the reality. People prefer sometimes to have a liar that Frank leader. I can be a good testimony of that”
2022-10-27 · The Rest Is Politics · 69. François Hollande on Putin, Obama, and Brexit · IDENTIFIED FROM THE TRANSCRIPT · source
“It's not in comparison with a brutal, not to convince, but to impress. That's the big difference. Putin is not a liar to give you some information. You will interpret. He wanted to lie, to impress you, to convince you he is in a relation of force. He will go at the ultimate point to be the better.”
2022-10-27 · The Rest Is Politics · 69. François Hollande on Putin, Obama, and Brexit · IDENTIFIED FROM THE TRANSCRIPT · source
“That's a polite lie Democratic lie because we must accept the verdict of the people and who is legitimate to preside. A little lie is when you don't give the information about the services. External situation. You have not to persist, you have not to give all”
2022-10-27 · The Rest Is Politics · 69. François Hollande on Putin, Obama, and Brexit · IDENTIFIED FROM THE TRANSCRIPT · source
“A big crisis in the democracy when the definitive leaders say that he has not. We must ask questions. What if Trump was president at the moment where Putin invited Trump? Are we sure that the Americans will support Ukraine? No. Are we sure that Putin have not a special relationship? No, no. We show that Trump wants to reshuffle NATO. Yes, we're broken. No. So that's a great problem. If in democracy we have leaders who don't want to fund democracy against dictatorship, what is the future?”
2022-10-27 · The Rest Is Politics · 69. François Hollande on Putin, Obama, and Brexit · IDENTIFIED FROM THE TRANSCRIPT · source
“A big lie. When I was in Minsk at the end of the night, we have an agreement with the Ukrainian president Putin and Merkel. We are ready to sign the agreement. And he explained, I must know what the separatist, Ukrainian separatists think about that. So I told him, gone, phone them. I don't know them. I have never met them. Never in my life. So he sent an advisor to phone. The advisor came back one or two hours after. They did not accept the baptist. So we are obliged to discuss one or two hours at the end. I will phone to the separatist. He has the pocket.”
2022-10-27 · The Rest Is Politics · 69. François Hollande on Putin, Obama, and Brexit · IDENTIFIED FROM THE TRANSCRIPT · source
“In a democracy. We use lies. Little lies, silent lies. but not the enormous lie, the lie who astonish, cut the discussion and with put in it possible, he explained that chemical bombs were not launched by the regime but by the opposition itself.”
2022-10-27 · The Rest Is Politics · 69. François Hollande on Putin, Obama, and Brexit · IDENTIFIED FROM THE TRANSCRIPT · source
“It was possible until Theresa May tried to do that. Perhaps the European Commission was too hard, but all the European leaders want to have a soft Brexit. It's a pity that this solution has not been found. And the problem was the border. The island. And Boy Johnson committed a mistake, but also a liar. Explain that it was not a problem. It's the main problem if we want to have a soft Brexit.”
2022-10-27 · The Rest Is Politics · 69. François Hollande on Putin, Obama, and Brexit · IDENTIFIED FROM THE TRANSCRIPT · source
“Yes, it was over because I remember the vote in France. It was very difficult to explain to the people, you vote no, but tomorrow you can change. If you don't want to change, we want a parliamentary system to obtain the same result. No, it's impossible in democracy.”
2022-10-27 · The Rest Is Politics · 69. François Hollande on Putin, Obama, and Brexit · IDENTIFIED FROM THE TRANSCRIPT · source
“She hoped that a new vote was possible because she lacks France, but she prefers to have Great Britain inside, not to be in front of France only.”
2022-10-27 · The Rest Is Politics · 69. François Hollande on Putin, Obama, and Brexit · IDENTIFIED FROM THE TRANSCRIPT · source
“Think first because of the past. We don't understand how it's forever a reality, the period of her life where the communist system was, yes. First, she was an European, so she defends the... German interest, but at the end of the discussion, a long discussion, a long compromise with nights and days to discuss, at the end of the course, she accepts the compromise on Eurozone, Greece, and also about Brexit. She wanted a second referendum when the Brexit was decided by the British people.”
2022-10-27 · The Rest Is Politics · 69. François Hollande on Putin, Obama, and Brexit · IDENTIFIED FROM THE TRANSCRIPT · source
“I spoke about the big change in 2012 with the alliance between China and Russia, but we have islands with all the dictatorships. The problem is now that Russia is not so condemned by the international community because Russia continues to explain that the responsibility of the crisis is on the side of Western countries. That's a problem. So Europeans and Western countries must convince the world that if Putin is winning the war, it will be a problem for all the world because tomorrow China can catch Taiwan because after tomorrow Iran can this Of nuclear weapons and control the region. It's a problem because Turkey can occupy the north of Syria and Kurdish regions. So it's a problem not for Ukraine, it's a problem for the international order and stability of the world.”
2022-10-27 · The Rest Is Politics · 69. François Hollande on Putin, Obama, and Brexit · IDENTIFIED FROM THE TRANSCRIPT · source
“Open defense, and also want to sell his proper weapons to Germany. But Germany prefers buy Americans than by European or by...”
2022-10-27 · The Rest Is Politics · 69. François Hollande on Putin, Obama, and Brexit · IDENTIFIED FROM THE TRANSCRIPT · source
“There is cohesion in Europe about the support of Ukraine, Germany and France and Great Britain agree to continue to support Ukraine. The division is about energy. And weapons for the future, energy, because in Germany they have the capacity to sustain the demand. In France, more difficult because of the budget capacity. So we want to have a selling price. The guys, and Germany is against the system because it's too expensive. And Germany wants to have a relationship in NATO with the United States for the future of the weapons. And France wants to have common”
2022-10-27 · The Rest Is Politics · 69. François Hollande on Putin, Obama, and Brexit · IDENTIFIED FROM THE TRANSCRIPT · source
“And Putin knows all these aspects. He has no democracy inside, so he can obtain the support of the Russian people. But he knows that we are divided. He knows we are weak. He knows we have elections. He continues to control the eastern of Ukrainian. And he hopes that we accept a negotiation and Ukrainians have no choice.”
2022-10-27 · The Rest Is Politics · 69. François Hollande on Putin, Obama, and Brexit · IDENTIFIED FROM THE TRANSCRIPT · source
“The decision is American. If Biden has the majority in the new elections, he will continue to support Ukrainians and provide arms and equipment. If he has not the majority, it would be more difficult. And if people in Europe accept sacrifice,”
2022-10-27 · The Rest Is Politics · 69. François Hollande on Putin, Obama, and Brexit · IDENTIFIED FROM THE TRANSCRIPT · source
“Yes, I think it was ready. And at the last moment, Obama called me and explained that he wanted to summon the Congress and to have the support of the Congress. So the operation was over at this period. And it was not so important for Syria. It was crucial, but it was very important for the world because at this moment Putin understood that Western countries are weak and not intervene anywhere. A year after the Ukrainian conflict, two years after bombs on Syria by Russian planes and Bashar al-Assad is always in power.”
2022-10-27 · The Rest Is Politics · 69. François Hollande on Putin, Obama, and Brexit · IDENTIFIED FROM THE TRANSCRIPT · source
“Yes, Obama is a charismatic leader. He has popularity. Of the United States, he was regarded as a new leader with a great talent to communicate. But also he is clever, of course, is arrogant. His American style, he thinks that the Americans are superior. And he explained with the other leaders what they know. They already know. The main fact, and you are right to remember the moment 2013 with Cameron and Obama, we decided to intervene in Syria to punish Bashar al-Assad. It's a crucial moment. We are in August 2013 and we are now convinced that Bashar al-Assad has used chemical weapons. Against his people. David Cameron, he was convinced to intervene. But because of the Blair's decision in Iraq, most of the MPs refused to intervene. So it was not a problem. We can do the operation with the United States and France.”
2022-10-27 · The Rest Is Politics · 69. François Hollande on Putin, Obama, and Brexit · IDENTIFIED FROM THE TRANSCRIPT · source
“Putin was sure to win when he decided to invade Ukraine. Now it's not so evident. And China is expecting what the issue of the conflict. But they think that we are in our democracies decadent. We are weak. We are divided. We are pushed by populism, pushed by nationalism, but it's a nation of internal affairs. Protectionism, it's sovereignism. It's not a nationalism to be powerful in the world. On the contrary, they want with China and Russia be powerful in the world. And they think that many countries are upset and they can hope that with dictatorship it's a better way to tackle the big problems of the world, including the climate change”
2022-10-27 · The Rest Is Politics · 69. François Hollande on Putin, Obama, and Brexit · IDENTIFIED FROM THE TRANSCRIPT · source
“Mildews is a big change not because I was elected. It's a big change because at this period Putin came back in power and CCP became the new president of China. And Putin is in revenge against the world and against the United States. He wanted to be now in a new cycle of supremacy of authoritarian regimes against democratic systems. And CCP at the beginning of his presidency is regarded as a modern president. In fact, he's a nationalist president. He wants that China will become the biggest power in the world in 2050 because it's the first century of the regime. The new situation is not that Putin and C-Cipping are in an island, but they are convinced that the time of the democracy is over and now a new period is opened for authoritarian regimes.”
2022-10-27 · The Rest Is Politics · 69. François Hollande on Putin, Obama, and Brexit · IDENTIFIED FROM THE TRANSCRIPT · source
“Under new treaty, we lost the referendum. And it's difficult to win a referendum about Europe because you have always one reason to vote no. Because you are not happy for economic policy because you have problems with wages, because you have preoccupation about your job for the future, because your region is weak and you think that Europe is responsible for this situation. So you have probability to lose the referendum. And David Cameron was a man who is always...”
2022-10-27 · The Rest Is Politics · 69. François Hollande on Putin, Obama, and Brexit · IDENTIFIED FROM THE TRANSCRIPT · source
“At this moment, we attended a European Council summit. David Cameron explained to American and me, he decided to end the debate in Great Britain. So he explains that it's a good decision because after the yes, it was over that British people asked for a new relation with Europe. With Cameron, I explained also that we have an experience in France. European campaign for referendum in 2005. So we lost”
2022-10-27 · The Rest Is Politics · 69. François Hollande on Putin, Obama, and Brexit · IDENTIFIED FROM THE TRANSCRIPT · source
“Difficult to speak about another country than France for me, but I don't want to give lessons so difficult in France that can forgive what happened in Great Britain. But it's surprised to have five prime ministers in five years. Six years? It's a splendid performance, so it's not a joke, it's a pity that countries like Great Britain has instability. We need stability in this moment because of the war in Ukraine, because of the energetic crisis. We need Great Britain in a good direction. So I hope that now you can work with Europe.”
2022-10-27 · The Rest Is Politics · 69. François Hollande on Putin, Obama, and Brexit · IDENTIFIED FROM THE TRANSCRIPT · source