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

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

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.

Facts or opinions which are to pass through the hands of so many, to be misconceived by folly in one, and ignorance in another, can hardly have much truth left.

REAL success, satisfaction and joy has nothing to do with owning STUFF!

No one respects a talent that is concealed.

Our finest flowers are often weeds transplanted.

There is a definite moment when a work congeals and crystallizes. Once I am finished with a painting, I am happy to send it off into the world so I can get to work on the next one.

Any actress will tell you, when you've been given a starring role in the initial run of a show, you want to be getting the standing ovations every night, not just on review night.

Collage is like a hall of mirrors. Every direction you look, you see something different and visually stimulating.

To play the drums, you have to spread your legs and use your arms. It's a very physical instrument to play. It's not feminine.

I'm a health-food junkie, so all of my food is a splurge, money-wise!