And still the time, especially in the economy, is very tough, very difficult. It's necessary to be active still, to work, to fight, to make our economy more competitive.

However, I don't doubt that a wave of immigration will come to Poland.

To be in the EU, it means to have same rules of... for economy, for social life, to be together in the majority of European countries.

We are a strong democratic country.

My message to the Americans, to the American President, is that I am coming from Poland, which is in good shape; it is much different than ten years ago when last state visit from Poland was here in the United States.

The nation is a community. Community of individuals, community of generations.

Following the Second World War, we are a country of one ethnicity. After the moving of the borders, after the tragedy of the Holocaust and the murder of Polish Jews, we don't have large minority groups.