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

...within ten years 80% of our economic legislation, perhaps even fiscal and social as well' would come from the EU.

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 European model is in danger if we obliterate the principle of personal responsibility.

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.

This weakening is worsened by the widening distance between the governed and their governments.

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

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

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

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

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

If you check your personal blind spots, you can be able to guard against focusing on what you cannot do, but reduce the areas of weakness by taking their space with more of your strengths.

Before success can truly become routine, there must be that transition from that wanting/hoping to have success toward honestly knowing you can earn success with your talents and work ethic.

A guy named Adolf Hitler won an election in 1932 ... and 50 million people died as a result ... what I learned as a little kid is that politics is, in fact, very important.

I've been a lucky boy.

There is no single field of activity, not a single institution, free of the most brutal sort of corruption. Russia has bred a world-class mafia.

I always say separate your abilities from your disabilities. You know, if I could play the violin, I don't have to play it standing up. I can play it sitting down and so on.

I think a lot of people feel that they are just not listened to, and that the politicians in Washington are just playing games with each other and forgetting about their constituents.

We usually surprised everyone, and still do, as we keep the craziness onstage.

If you're afraid of something, you definitely have to try to tackle it.

There are a lot of homes for boys, but very few for girls, that is why I chose to do for girls.