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

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

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

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.

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

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.