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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.

Adam Michnik

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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Enem Enemy Hussein Thinking
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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I believe that a man can only be useful to his country when he can look at it clearly.
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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 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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Poland is an ally of the United States of America. It was our duty to show that we are a reliable, loyal, and predictable ally.
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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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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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Start doing the things you think should be done, and start being what you think society should become.
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Both men have an authoritarian idea of government; democracy is merely a façade.
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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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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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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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A part of society in our countries would still prefer an authoritarian regime today. These are people with the mentality of Homo sovieticus. But they also exist in France – just think of Le Pen – and even in Finland and Sweden.
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