Jacques Delors Quotes
Cinema explains American society. It's like a Western, with good guys and bad guys, where the weak don't have a place.
Jacques Delors
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For me, socialism has always been about liberty and solidarity, but also about responsibility.
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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 will come to regret my decision, but for the moment, I live at peace with it.
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This weakening is worsened by the widening distance between the governed and their governments.
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The Americans should stop insulting us, I'm not going to be an accomplice to the depopulation of the land. It's not up to the Americans to tell us how to organise our farm policy and the balance of our society. Their attitude is to treat the EC as if it had the plague and then encourage the rest of the world to join in.
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This desire for equity must not lead to an excess of welfare, where nobody is responsible for anything.
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If you don't have collective agreements between unions and employers, governments have to legislate more.
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Therefore one should speak at the same time of national citizenship and wider European citizenship.
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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 guided by opinion polls.
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The countries that share this conception should be able to go further together, without excluding the others, since they can still live in a greater community of exchange and co-operation.
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We have to struggle against the conservatives from all sides, not only the right-wingers, but also the left-wing conservatives who don't want to change anything.
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The unions still have a job to do, representing their members' interests to governments and parliaments. And I think collective agreements still have a role, alongside markets and laws.
Jacques Delors
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Cinema explains American society. It's like a Western, with good guys and bad guys, where the weak don't have a place.
Jacques Delors