Yes, the European model remains superior to that of America and Japan.

...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.

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.

Even "meant to be" takes work.

Grief comes with many losses. Whatever its cause, grief will come to all of us.

That is why it could happen anywhere, given the right ingredients: particular people in government, competing with others- or with each other- over natural and wealth-creating resources.

We are always paid for our suspicion by finding what we suspect.

With respect to the pledge I made that if you like your plan you can keep it. The way I put that forward unequivocally ended up not being accurate.

Every victory contains the germ of future defeat.

How can I play baseball when I'm worried about foreign policy?

If you can die, you are confused because death is a perception of something ending and something else obviously beginning, which means we're still hung up on qualities.

If Life Gets Too Hard To Stand, Kneel.

In peace children inter their parents, war violates the order of nature and causes parents to inter their children.