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The driving force behind the liberal counter-offensive in Europe has been a reaction against irresponsibility.

The unions may continue to decline, but if they do, it'll be their fault.

Any union that can't accept workers choosing their own representatives through universal franchise is finished.

My problem is how to find the best way of being useful.

This weakening is worsened by the widening distance between the governed and their governments.

Therefore one should speak at the same time of national citizenship and wider European citizenship.

I cannot resign myself to the decline of Europe, and of France.

I had to think whether, after 50 years of hard slog, I was still lucid and fresh enough for the job.

This desire for equity must not lead to an excess of welfare, where nobody is responsible for anything.

Fundamentally, American society is composed of individuals who don't go out of their way to do each other favours.

Yes, the European model remains superior to that of America and Japan.

Cinema explains American society. It's like a Western, with good guys and bad guys, where the weak don't have a place.

The European model is in danger if we obliterate the principle of personal responsibility.

If you don't have collective agreements between unions and employers, governments have to legislate more.

Contrary to what people say, my wife never turned me away from the presidency. She told me to reflect on it and do what I wanted.

For me, socialism has always been about liberty and solidarity, but also about responsibility.

We will have to create an avant-garde ... We could have a Union for the enlarged Europe, and a Federation for the avant-garde.

Within ten years 80% of our economic legislation, perhaps even fiscal and social as well' would come from the EU.

Even in Britain, the trade unions tell me that employment contracts have less protection than in the past.