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.
ADAM MICHNIKPoland 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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They want a gradual coup. If Orbán stayed in power in Hungary or if Kaczynski were to win an election in our country, it would be dangerous.
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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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Demagoguery and populism are rampant. We are the illegitimate children, the bastards of communism. It shaped our mentality.
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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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The real struggle for us is for the citizen to cease to be the property of the state.
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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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In a democracy, the government is a reflection of society because people are elected.
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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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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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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 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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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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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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I consider that 9/11 was the day when war was started against my own work and against myself.
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