If you don't have collective agreements between unions and employers, governments have to legislate more.

...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.

I would rather be governed by the first three hundred names in the Boston telephone book than by the Faculty of Harvard University.

Youth fades love droops the leaves of friendship fall A mother's secret hope outlives them all.

Discretion is the polite word for hypocrisy.

If we thought that instead of 200 Palestinian fatalities, 2,000 dead would put an end to the fighting at a stroke, we would use much more force.

The world is charged with the grandeur of God. It will flame out, like shining from shook foil; It gathers to a greatness, like the ooze of oil Crushed.

Being active every day makes it easier to hear that inner voice.

There's 54 years of X-Men comics by now, so there are a lot of characters to explore.

God expects believers to improve their attitude in giving as well as their giving itself.

We write so many songs, it is difficult to narrow them down.

The peerless cup afloat Of the lake-lily is an urn some nymph Swims bearing high above her head.