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

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

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

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.

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

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.

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.