There were free elections in Bulgaria, where the opposition has just won.
ADAM MICHNIKKaczynski appointed a judge to the position of deputy justice minister who had once sentenced current President Bronislaw Komorowski to a prison term.
More Adam Michnik Quotes
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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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America needed our help, and we had to give it.
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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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Do you believe in an open society? Then act in the open. Do you believe in a decent and humane society? Then behave decently and humanely.
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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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In a democracy, the government is a reflection of society because people are elected.
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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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I can’t remember any text of mine where I said that one should fight Hitler without violence; I’m not an idiot.
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Both men have an authoritarian idea of government; democracy is merely a façade.
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I think you can be an enemy of Saddam Hussein even if Donald Rumsfeld is also an enemy of Saddam Hussein.
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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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France can never accept that it is no longer a dominating power in the world of culture. This is true both of the French right and the French left. They keep thinking that Americans are primitive cowboys or farmers who do not understand anything.
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I think it’s always dangerous to make political arguments in a religiously ideological way. And it’s very dangerous to treat as traitors to the American nation those who think differently.
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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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Demagoguery and populism are rampant. We are the illegitimate children, the bastards of communism. It shaped our mentality.
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