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

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

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

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

The European model is, first, a social and economic system founded on the role of the market, for no computer in the world can process information better than the market.

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

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.