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" Any union that can't accept workers choosing their own representatives through universal franchise is finished. "
Universal
Accept
Through
" Cinema explains American society. It's like a Western, with good guys and bad guys, where the weak don't have a place. "
Cinema
American
Society
" Even in Britain, the trade unions tell me that employment contracts have less protection than in the past. "
Tell
Protection
Past
" For me, socialism has always been about liberty and solidarity, but also about responsibility. "
Liberty
Socialism
Responsibility
" Fundamentally, American society is composed of individuals who don't go out of their way to do each other favours. "
Go
Way
American
" I cannot resign myself to the decline of Europe, and of France. "
Europe
France
Myself
" If you don't have collective agreements between unions and employers, governments have to legislate more. "
You
Unions
Collective
" I had to think whether, after 50 years of hard slog, I was still lucid and fresh enough for the job. "
Fresh
Enough
Think
" 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. "
People
Personal
Plan
" 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. "
Victory
Decision
Live
" My problem is how to find the best way of being useful. "
Best Way
Way
Best
" 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. "
Together
Live
Go
" The driving force behind the liberal counter-offensive in Europe has been a reaction against irresponsibility. "
Liberal
Behind
Been
" 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. "
Information
Process
World
" The European model is in danger if we obliterate the principle of personal responsibility. "
Danger
Model
Personal
" 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. "
Society
Finance
People
" The problem with a purely collective system is not only that it requires economic growth, and the right sort of demographic trends, but that it prevents people thinking about their futures in a responsible way. "
Problem
Way
Thinking
" Therefore one should speak at the same time of national citizenship and wider European citizenship. "
Speak
Time
Same
" 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. "
Result
Enough
Political
" The unions may continue to decline, but if they do, it'll be their fault. "
May
Continue
Decline
" 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. "
Role
Job
Laws
" This desire for equity must not lead to an excess of welfare, where nobody is responsible for anything. "
Nobody
Equity
Responsible
" This weakening is worsened by the widening distance between the governed and their governments. "
Governments
Governed
Between
" 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. "
Change
Against
Want
" Yes, the European model remains superior to that of America and Japan. "
Superior
Japan
Model
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