The call to finally clean house is a propaganda tool of the right, which tolerates the leftists who it condemns.
ADAM MICHNIKAfter the fall of communism in Poland, we had a post-communist as president for two terms: Aleksander Kwasniewski. He was very good. He brought Poland into NATO and the European Union.
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If you’re powerful, you are much more likely to be blind and deaf to signals from outside.
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America needed our help, and we had to give it.
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In a democracy, the government is a reflection of society because people are elected.
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Kaczynski appointed a judge to the position of deputy justice minister who had once sentenced current President Bronislaw Komorowski to a prison term.
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Today we reject the notion of equality between a regime that belongs to the democratic world – even if it is conservative and disagreeable – and a totalitarian dictatorship, whether its colors are black, red, or green.
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The real struggle for us is for the citizen to cease to be the property of the state.
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We lack a political culture, a culture of compromise. We in Poland, as well as the Hungarians, have never learned this sort of thing.
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Israel is the only country in the Middle East where Arabs can be elected to the parliament in a democratic election.
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I believe that a man can only be useful to his country when he can look at it clearly.
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Although there is a strong desire for freedom in the countries of Eastern Europe, there is no democratic tradition, so that the risk of anarchy and chaos continues to exist.
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Politics and ethics belong to different worlds.
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Start doing the things you think should be done, and start being what you think society should become.
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I consider that 9/11 was the day when war was started against my own work and against myself.
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There were free elections in Bulgaria, where the opposition has just won.
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Do you believe in free speech? Then speak freely. Do you love the truth? Then tell it.
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