Jacques Delors Quotes & Sayings (Page 2)

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

“I had to think whether, after 50 years of hard slog, I was still lucid and fresh enough for the job.”

“Yes, the European model remains superior to that of America and Japan.”

“Even in Britain, the trade unions tell me that employment contracts have less protection than in the past.”

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

“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.”

“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.”

“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.”

“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.”

“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.”