America needed our help, and we had to give it.
ADAM MICHNIKAmerica needed our help, and we had to give it.
ADAM MICHNIKI think you can be an enemy of Saddam Hussein even if Donald Rumsfeld is also an enemy of Saddam Hussein.
ADAM MICHNIKWe still have politicians who strive for a different type of country: Kaczynski as well as Orbán in Hungary.
ADAM MICHNIKThere were free elections in Bulgaria, where the opposition has just won.
ADAM MICHNIKKaczynski appointed a judge to the position of deputy justice minister who had once sentenced current President Bronislaw Komorowski to a prison term.
ADAM MICHNIKAfter 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.
ADAM MICHNIKThe real struggle for us is for the citizen to cease to be the property of the state.
ADAM MICHNIKDemagoguery and populism are rampant. We are the illegitimate children, the bastards of communism. It shaped our mentality.
ADAM MICHNIKI 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.
ADAM MICHNIKThe call to finally clean house is a propaganda tool of the right, which tolerates the leftists who it condemns.
ADAM MICHNIKPolitics and ethics belong to different worlds.
ADAM MICHNIKIsrael is the only country in the Middle East where Arabs can be elected to the parliament in a democratic election.
ADAM MICHNIKA 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.
ADAM MICHNIKDo you believe in free speech? Then speak freely. Do you love the truth? Then tell it.
ADAM MICHNIKI believe that a man can only be useful to his country when he can look at it clearly.
ADAM MICHNIKFrance 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.
ADAM MICHNIK