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They want a gradual coup. If Orbán stayed in power in Hungary or if Kaczynski were to win an election in our country, it would be dangerous.

Adam Michnik

America needed our help, and we had to give it.
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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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In a democracy, the government is a reflection of society because people are elected.
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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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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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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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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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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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Sometimes the type of person from the old machine, who is everything but an appealing figure, happens to win an election. But democracy applies to everyone, not just the noble and the clever.
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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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Politics and ethics belong to different worlds.
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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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We still have politicians who strive for a different type of country: Kaczynski as well as Orbán in Hungary.
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There were free elections in Bulgaria, where the opposition has just won.
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This is why we will never again say that Chamberlain is no better than Hitler, Roosevelt no better than Stalin, and Nixon no better than Mao Zedong, even if we do condemn Roosevelt for Yalta, Chamberlain for Munich, and Nixon for Watergate.
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They want a gradual coup. If Orbán stayed in power in Hungary or if Kaczynski were to win an election in our country, it would be dangerous.

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