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.

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

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.

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

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

I cannot resign myself to the decline of Europe, and of France.