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.

For me, socialism has always been about liberty and solidarity, but also about responsibility.

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

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

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

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.

The unions may continue to decline, but if they do, it'll be their fault.