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Yes, the European model remains superior to that of America and Japan.
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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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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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.
Jacques Delors
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If you don't have collective agreements between unions and employers, governments have to legislate more.
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 unions may continue to decline, but if they do, it'll be their fault.
Jacques Delors
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The European model is in danger if we obliterate the principle of personal 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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I cannot resign myself to thi decline of Europe, and of France.
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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This weakening is worsened by the widening distance between the governed and their governments.
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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For me, socialism has always been about liberty and solidarity, but also about responsibility.
Jacques Delors
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My problem is how to find the best way of being useful.
Jacques Delors
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