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Jacques Delors

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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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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. - Jacques Delors
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I cannot resign myself to the decline of Europe, and of France. - Jacques Delors
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Fundamentally, American society is composed of individuals who don't go out of their way to do each other favours. - Jacques Delors
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For me, socialism has always been about liberty and solidarity, but also about responsibility. - Jacques Delors
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Even in Britain, the trade unions tell me that employment contracts have less protection than in the past. - 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
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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. - Jacques Delors
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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. - Jacques Delors
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The unions may continue to decline, but if they do, it'll be their fault. - Jacques Delors
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I had to think whether, after 50 years of hard slog, I was still lucid and fresh enough for the job. - Jacques Delors
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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. - Jacques Delors
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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. - Jacques Delors
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Any union that can't accept workers choosing their own representatives through universal franchise is finished. - Jacques Delors
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This desire for equity must not lead to an excess of welfare, where nobody is responsible for anything. - Jacques Delors
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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. - Jacques Delors
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