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.’
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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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 consider that 9/11 was the day when war was started against my own work and against myself.
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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 believe that a man can only be useful to his country when he can look at it clearly.
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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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Start doing the things you think should be done, and start being what you think society should become.
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After 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.
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There were free elections in Bulgaria, where the opposition has just won.
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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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Politics and ethics belong to different worlds.
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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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The call to finally clean house is a propaganda tool of the right, which tolerates the leftists who it condemns.
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America needed our help, and we had to give it.
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Do you believe in free speech? Then speak freely. Do you love the truth? Then tell it.
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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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