My most ardent desire is that my country will recapture its historic opportunity for a peaceful evolution and that Poland will prove to the world that even the most complex situations can be solved by a dialogue and not by force.

Freedom must be gained step by step, slowly. Freedom is a food which must be carefully administered when people are too hungry for it.

[Without Pope John Paul II] there would be no end of Communism or at least much later, and the end would have been bloody.

I have a vision, and I know I'm right.

The hope of the nation which throughout the nineteenth century had not for a moment reconciled itself with the loss of independence, and fighting for its own freedom, fought at the same time for the freedom of other nations.

I am happy that Poland is returning to the road of pluralism and democracy.

Words are plentiful; deeds are precious.