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

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

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

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.

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

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.

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