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

We have to struggle against the conservatives from all sides, not only the right-wingers, but also the left-wing conservatives who don't want to change anything.

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

My presidential victory, if it had happened, would have been artificial in relation to the Socialist party. It may be that on my deathbed, I will come to regret my decision, but for the moment, I live at peace with it.

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.

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