My Kashubian family, like the Jews, are people who were born and live in border areas and were suspected by the Nazis and by the Communists of being disloyal.

Poland is not a very large country, but it's also not a small country.

Poles must understand history but we must also overcome it if it is obstructing our contemporary goals.

Poland is quite a mediocre country in some regards. The only natural resource that we have, and with which we can compete, is freedom.

I spent an important part of my life participating in conflicts. But for me, conflict was not the main principle.

What we have to do is to definitively remove the last vestiges of power from those who treat terms such as liberal democracy, free markets and Europe with suspicion.

Many militant conflicts began with war-like words. The blame game is currently more popular in the EU than football. But maybe there is also a good side to this. We now talk more honestly and emotionally with each other. Not in the soulless Euro-lingo of earlier times.