We will have to create an avant-garde.... We could have a Union for the enlarged Europe, and a Federation for the avant-garde.

...within ten years 80% of our economic legislation, perhaps even fiscal and social as well' would come from the EU.

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.

Therefore one should speak at the same time of national citizenship and wider European citizenship.

The greatest duty of life is to find the ultimate purpose of life. The second greatest duty is to put a laser focus on it and take action.

Denim and doubt, cotton and caution, fell to the floor in a forgotten heap

Poverty is apt to strike suddenly like influenza, it is well to have a few memories of extravagance in store for bad times.

Every part of the earth is sacred to my people.

For the same reason that the Ancien Regime is thought to have an end but no beginning, the Revolution has a birth but no end.

Do you know how to wrap a leg?" "I was born wrapping legs," I say stiffly, because I'm insulted. "Must've been a challenging delivery," Sean notes.

If you wish to get hold of the invisible you must penetrate as deeply as possible into the visible.

When we started off, we wanted the girls, the cocaine, the fur coats. It wasn't like it was an act; it was almost like working-class people winning the pools. We went bananas.

I'm much happier just to write myself out of the script entirely.

I am blessed to have been born in Australia where water sports are loved and swimmers are revered.