Kaczynski appointed a judge to the position of deputy justice minister who had once sentenced current President Bronislaw Komorowski to a prison term.
ADAM MICHNIKDo you believe in free speech? Then speak freely. Do you love the truth? Then tell it.
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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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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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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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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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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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Do you believe in free speech? Then speak freely. Do you love the truth? Then tell it.
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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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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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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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Today we reject the notion of equality between a regime that belongs to the democratic world – even if it is conservative and disagreeable – and a totalitarian dictatorship, whether its colors are black, red, or green.
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America needed our help, and we had to give it.
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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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We still have politicians who strive for a different type of country: Kaczynski as well as Orbán in Hungary.
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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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