Quotes by Jacques Delors - Page 1

My problem is how to find the best way of being useful.
Jacques Delors / Economist
Best Way
Problem
Way
Best Way Find
Useful
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I cannot resign myself to the decline of Europe, and of France.
Jacques Delors / Economist
Aggravation
Decline
Europe
France
Resign
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Yes, the European model remains superior to that of America and Japan.
Jacques Delors / Economist
America
Europe
Japan
Remains
Model
Superior
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The unions may continue to decline, but if they do, it'll be their fault.
Jacques Delors / Economist
Aggravation
Decline
May
Unions
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The European model is in danger if we obliterate the principle of personal responsibility.
Jacques Delors / Economist
Danger
Europe
Personal Responsibility
Principles
Responsibility
European
Model
Obliterate
Principle
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For me, socialism has always been about liberty and solidarity, but also about responsibility.
Jacques Delors / Economist
Eugenics
Liberty
Responsibility
Socialism
Solidarity
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This weakening is worsened by the widening distance between the governed and their governments.
Jacques Delors / Economist
Government
Distance
Long
Weakening
Governed
Widening
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Therefore one should speak at the same time of national citizenship and wider European citizenship.
Jacques Delors / Economist
Citizenship
Europe
Speak
European
Therefore
Wider
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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 / Economist
Lucid
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This desire for equity must not lead to an excess of welfare, where nobody is responsible for anything.
Jacques Delors / Economist
Desire
Equity
Excess
Welfare
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If you don't have collective agreements between unions and employers, governments have to legislate more.
Jacques Delors / Economist
Government
Agreement
Employers
Unions
Agreements
Collective
Governments
Legislate
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Even in Britain, the trade unions tell me that employment contracts have less protection than in the past.
Jacques Delors / Economist
Britain
Contracts
Employment
Past
Protection
Trade Unions
Unions
In The Past
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The driving force behind the liberal counter-offensive in Europe has been a reaction against irresponsibility.
Jacques Delors / Economist
Driving
Driving Force
Europe
Irresponsibility
Offensive
Liberal
Reaction
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Any union that can't accept workers choosing their own representatives through universal franchise is finished.
Jacques Delors / Economist
Philosophy
Political
Representatives
Unions
Workers
Choosing
Franchise
Union
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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 / Economist
American Society
Favour
Individual
Way
Composed
Favours
Fundamentally
Individuals
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...within ten years 80% of our economic legislation, perhaps even fiscal and social as well' would come from the EU.
Jacques Delors / Economist
Economic
Social
Years
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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 / Economist
American Society
Bad Guys
Cinema
Guy
Weak
Western
Good Society Bad
Explains
Good Guys
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We will have to create an avant-garde.... We could have a Union for the enlarged Europe, and a Federation for the avant-garde.
Jacques Delors / Economist
Avant Garde
Europe
Unions
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Contrary to what people say, my wife never turned me away from the presidency. She told me to reflect on it and do what I wanted.
Jacques Delors / Economist
People
Wanted
Wife
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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 / Economist
Left Wing
Sides
Struggle
Want
Wings
Conservatives
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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 / Economist
Computer
Europe
Firsts
Roles
Founded
Economic System
European
Model
Process Information
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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 / Economist
Groups
Leader
Opinion
Opinion Polls
Political
Political Leaders
Guided
Intermediary
Result
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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 / Economist
Jobs
Government
Members
Representing
Thinking
Unions
Agreements
Alongside
Collective
Governments
Interests
Markets
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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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Conception
Co-Operation
Exchange
Further
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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 / Economist
Devising
Incentives
People
Provision
Additional
Collective
Opposed
Pensions
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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.
Jacques Delors / Economist
Economic
Economic Growth
Growth
People
Thinking
Thinking People Way
Collective
Demographic
Futures
Prevents
Purely
Requires
Responsible Way
The Problem With
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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 / Economist
Artificial
Deathbed
Decision
Party
Presidential
Regret
Relation
Socialist
Socialist Party
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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 / Economist
Finance
Creating
Equity
Issues
Obscure
Thinking
Welfare
Welfare State
Inalienable
Inalienable Right
Issue
Separate
Thinks
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My objective is that before the end of the millennium Europe should have a true federation. The Commission should become a political executive which can define essential common interests... responsible before the European Parliament and before the nation-states represented how you will, by the European Council or by a second chamber of national parliaments.
Jacques Delors / Economist
Europe
Political
Should Have
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