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.

...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.

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.

The altitude of any relation is possible through discourse.

Friendship was given by nature to be an assistant to virtue not a companion in vice.

Setbacks have an upside; they fuel new dreams.

There's not much makeup in the army, is there? No. They only have that nighttime look, and that's a bit slapdash, isn't it?

Are you mine?” Yes. “Are you mine?” Yes. “Are you mine?” No. “No?” No. I loved being yours. But now I’m mine, which is all I ever was, in the end.

Let us be in a position so we are able to not only feed ourselves through home production and storage, but others as well.

The place of justice is a hallowed place.

Look at everything through the lens of eternity. If you will do this, life will take on a different perspective.

Develop a depression.

I always do my interviews face to face.