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.

Even in Britain, the trade unions tell me that employment contracts have less protection than in the past.

We will have to create an avant-garde.... We could have a Union for the enlarged Europe, and a Federation for the avant-garde.

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.

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

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.