Demagoguery and populism are rampant. We are the illegitimate children, the bastards of communism. It shaped our mentality.
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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We still have politicians who strive for a different type of country: Kaczynski as well as Orbán in Hungary.
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Although there is a strong desire for freedom in the countries of Eastern Europe, there is no democratic tradition, so that the risk of anarchy and chaos continues to exist.
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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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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 real struggle for us is for the citizen to cease to be the property of the state.
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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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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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There were free elections in Bulgaria, where the opposition has just won.
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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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Both men have an authoritarian idea of government; democracy is merely a façade.
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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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Start doing the things you think should be done, and start being what you think society should become.
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