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

This is the moment of your defeat; you have just put in the last nails in the coffin of communism.

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.

I hope to work harder than ever to help people around the world.

Lying at the root of the social agreements of 1980 are the courage, sense of responsibility, and the solidarity of the working people. Both sides have then recognized that an accord must be reached if bloodshed is to be prevented.

When I recall my own path of life I cannot but speak of the violence, hatred and lies. A lesson drawn from such experiences, however, was that we can effectively oppose violence only if we ourselves do not resort to it.

Freedom may be the soul of humanity, but often you have to struggle to prove it.