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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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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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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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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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Start doing the things you think should be done, and start being what you think society should become.
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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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Politics and ethics belong to different worlds.
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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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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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Demagoguery and populism are rampant. We are the illegitimate children, the bastards of communism. It shaped our mentality.
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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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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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If you’re powerful, you are much more likely to be blind and deaf to signals from outside.
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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 believe that a man can only be useful to his country when he can look at it clearly.
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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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