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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.

Adam Michnik

The main difference between the Prague Spring and the Velvet Revolution was that the former was mostly the work of Communist party members and others who wanted to bring about ‘socialism with a human face.’
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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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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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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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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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The call to finally clean house is a propaganda tool of the right, which tolerates the leftists who it condemns.
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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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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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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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America needed our help, and we had to give it.
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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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There were free elections in Bulgaria, where the opposition has just won.
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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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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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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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