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"For me, socialism has always been about liberty and solidarity, but also about responsibility."
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"Liberty is always dangerous, but it is the safest thing we have."
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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."
"I had to think whether, after 50 years of hard slog, I was still lucid and fresh enough for the job."
"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."
"This desire for equity must not lead to an excess of welfare, where nobody is responsible for anything."
"Fundamentally, American society is composed of individuals who don't go out of their way to do each other favours."
"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."
"Therefore one should speak at the same time of national citizenship and wider European citizenship."
"Even in Britain, the trade unions tell me that employment contracts have less protection than in the past."
"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."
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