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.

The driving force behind the liberal counter-offensive in Europe has been a reaction against irresponsibility.

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

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

We have to struggle against the conservatives from all sides, not only the right-wingers, but also the left-wing conservatives who don't want to change anything.

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.

My presidential victory, if it had happened, would have been artificial in relation to the Socialist party. It may be that on my deathbed, I will come to regret my decision, but for the moment, I live at peace with it.