Lionel Jospin

“Yes to the market economy, no to the market society.”

“I take full responsibility for this failure and I draw the conclusions by withdrawing from political life.”

“The state cannot do everything.”

“My project is not socialist.”

“We must accept the idea of a certain part of the market economy.”

“I am proud of our record.”

“Politics is not morality, but it cannot be immorality.”

“A politician who no longer has projects no longer has a reason to exist.”

“We must modernize without brutalizing.”

“I am a socialist, therefore European.”

“There is a duty of memory, there is a duty of truth.”

“The presumption of innocence is a fundamental principle of our law.”