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

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

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

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

The problem with a purely collective system is not only that it requires economic growth, and the right sort of demographic trends, but that it prevents people thinking about their futures in a responsible way.

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

The problem of how we finance the welfare state should not obscure a separate issue: if each person thinks he has an inalienable right to welfare, no matter what happens to the world, that's not equity, it's just creating a society where you can't ask anything of people.