List of Jacques Delors Quotes

Fundamentally, American Society Is Composed Of Individuals Who Don't Go Out Of Their Way To Do Each Other Favours.

If You Don't Have Collective Agreements Between Unions And Employers, Governments Have To Legislate More.

Any Union That Can't Accept Workers Choosing Their Own Representatives Through Universal Franchise Is Finished.

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.

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.

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.

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.

Cinema Explains American Society. It's Like A Western, With Good Guys And Bad Guys, Where The Weak Don't Have A Place.

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.

Even In Britain, The Trade Unions Tell Me That Employment Contracts Have Less Protection Than In The Past.

This Desire For Equity Must Not Lead To An Excess Of Welfare, Where Nobody Is Responsible For Anything.

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.