I consider that 9/11 was the day when war was started against my own work and against myself.
ADAM MICHNIKToday 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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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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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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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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Do you believe in free speech? Then speak freely. Do you love the truth? Then tell it.
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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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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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The real struggle for us is for the citizen to cease to be the property of the state.
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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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We still have politicians who strive for a different type of country: Kaczynski as well as Orbán in Hungary.
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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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I believe that a man can only be useful to his country when he can look at it clearly.
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Politics and ethics belong to different worlds.
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America needed our help, and we had to give it.
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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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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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