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In a democracy, the government is a reflection of society because people are elected.

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There were free elections in Bulgaria, where the opposition has just won.
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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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We still have politicians who strive for a different type of country: Kaczynski as well as Orbán in Hungary.
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Both men have an authoritarian idea of government; democracy is merely a façade.
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America needed our help, and we had to give 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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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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A part of society in our countries would still prefer an authoritarian regime today. These are people with the mentality of Homo sovieticus. But they also exist in France – just think of Le Pen – and even in Finland and Sweden.
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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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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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If you’re powerful, you are much more likely to be blind and deaf to signals from outside.
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Politics and ethics belong to different worlds.
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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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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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