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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

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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I consider that 9/11 was the day when war was started against my own work and against myself.
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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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There were free elections in Bulgaria, where the opposition has just won.
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The main difference between the Prague Spring and the Velvet Revolution was that the former was mostly the work of Communist party members and others who wanted to bring about ‘socialism with a human face.’
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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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The real struggle for us is for the citizen to cease to be the property of the state.
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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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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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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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America needed our help, and we had to give it.
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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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We still have politicians who strive for a different type of country: Kaczynski as well as Orbán in Hungary.
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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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