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.

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

Therefore one should speak at the same time of national citizenship and wider European citizenship.

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 problem is how to find the best way of being useful.

I would not be opposed to devising a new system of pensions, in which one part was based on collective provision, but which also gave incentives for people to take out an additional, personal plan.

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