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Jacques Delors Quotes

French - Economist | June 20, 1925 -

My problem is how to find the best way of being useful.

Best Problem Find Way Being Useful

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.

Live Community Together Go Others

The driving force behind the liberal counter-offensive in Europe has been a reaction against irresponsibility.

Driving Reaction Europe Against Been

The European model is in danger if we obliterate the principle of personal responsibility.

Responsibility Personal Danger Model

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.

World Process Better Information

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.

Politics Finance People World You

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.

Growth People Thinking Problem Way

The unions may continue to decline, but if they do, it'll be their fault.

Unions 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.

Job Think Unions Laws Role Still

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

Time Speak Citizenship Same Should

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.

Opinion Political Enough Result Days

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 Struggle Want Sides Anything

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