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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.

Adam Michnik

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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If you’re powerful, you are much more likely to be blind and deaf to signals from outside.
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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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I believe that a man can only be useful to his country when he can look at it clearly.
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After 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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The call to finally clean house is a propaganda tool of the right, which tolerates the leftists who it condemns.
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After the French Revolution, it was not the treason of the king that was in question; it was the existence of the king. You have to be very careful when you judge and execute somebody for being a symbol.
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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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There were free elections in Bulgaria, where the opposition has just won.
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Even though we are not sure of the links, Iraq was one of the countries that did not lower its flags in mourning on 9/11.
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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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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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Start doing the things you think should be done, and start being what you think society should become.
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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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Politics and ethics belong to different worlds.
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