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.
From Jacques Delors
The unions may continue to decline, but if they do, it'll be their fault.
Any union that can't accept workers choosing their own representatives through universal franchise is finished.
Cinema explains American society. It's like a Western, with good guys and bad guys, where the weak don't have a place.
Even in Britain, the trade unions tell me that employment contracts have less protection than in the past.
For me, socialism has always been about liberty and solidarity, but also about responsibility.
Fundamentally, American society is composed of individuals who don't go out of their way to do each other favours.
I cannot resign myself to the decline of Europe, and of France.
I had to think whether, after 50 years of hard slog, I was still lucid and fresh enough for the job.
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.
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