I allowed myself to be taken in by the intellectuals. I believed too much in the Polish intellectuals and followed their advice.

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

I made the right decisions, I set everything on the right course, the reforms are going in the right direction.

Obviously people want social calm, but if you do not let clever and ingenious people to participate, obviously there must be some dormant volcano that will erupt, sooner or later.

When he saw injustice, he wanted to do away with it. He saw communism, and he wanted to put an end to it.

"It all came from there," Lech Walesa said, pointing to a TV when a reporter asked him why communism fell.

President Lech Kaczynski is not at all active in Poland and his image abroad leaves a lot to be desired.