99 Quotes by Christine Lagarde

I'm not in the business of reading tea leaves. I don't have a crystal ball.

I'm very much a believer that it's action that matters much more so than, you know, the flurry of political promises and statements and slogans that are used during political campaigns.

You are never wrong when you have voted because you've acted in accordance with your conscience and your beliefs, and you've exercised your democratic right, which is, you know, perfectly legitimate in our democracies.

The difficulty that negotiators have is often based on the cultural difference that various countries have.

The Europeans governments have massively changed the landscape in Europe. There is no doubt about it. They have put together the European Financial Stability Fund. They have discussed and approved the European Stability Mechanism.

A global world needs global firewalls.

If inflation is the genie, then deflation is the ogre that must be fought decisively,

Massive progress has been made in the last five years. More progress has to be made in terms of fiscal union and banking union.

France would be reluctant to embrace any proposal by the European Commission to slash agricultural tariffs if it threatened the European Union's Common Agriculture Policy .