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Even though we are not sure of the links, Iraq was one of the countries that did not lower its flags in mourning on 9/11.

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America needed our help, and we had to give it.
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Both men have an authoritarian idea of government; democracy is merely a façade.
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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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In a democracy, the government is a reflection of society because people are elected.
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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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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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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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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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I believe that a man can only be useful to his country when he can look at it clearly.
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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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We still have politicians who strive for a different type of country: Kaczynski as well as Orbán in Hungary.
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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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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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As a rule, dictatorships guarantee safe streets and terror of the doorbell. In democracy the streets may be unsafe after dark, but the most likely visitor in the early hours will be the milkman.
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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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