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

These days there are not enough of such intermediary groups, between the state and the individual, with the result that political leaders are often unduly guided by opinion polls.

My objective is that before the end of the millennium Europe should have a true federation. The Commission should become a political executive which can define essential common interests... responsible before the European Parliament and before the nation-states represented how you will, by the European Council or by a second chamber of national parliaments.

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

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

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

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