Jacques Delors Quotes

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• Any union that can't accept workers choosing their own representatives through universal franchise is finished.
• Contrary to what people say, my wife never turned me away from the presidency. She told me to reflect on it and do what I…
• My presidential victory, if it had happened, would have been artificial in relation to the Socialist party. It may be that on my deathbed, I…
• These days there are not enough of such intermediary groups, between the state and the individual, with the result that political leaders are often unduly…
• For me, socialism has always been about liberty and solidarity, but also about responsibility.
• 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.
• Therefore one should speak at the same time of national citizenship and wider European citizenship.
• 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…
• Yes, the European model remains superior to that of America and Japan.
• The European model is in danger if we obliterate the principle of personal responsibility.
• We will have to create an avant-garde.... We could have a Union for the enlarged Europe, and a Federation for the avant-garde.
• Even in Britain, the trade unions tell me that employment contracts have less protection than in the past.
• 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…
• My problem is how to find the best way of being useful.
• Fundamentally, American society is composed of individuals who don't go out of their way to do each other favours.
• 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.
• 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…

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