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

The fall of the Berlin Wall makes for nice pictures. But it all started in the shipyards.

Now is the era of intellect, information and the Internet.

It is not difficult to censor foreign news. What is difficult today is to censor one's own thoughts, To sit by and see the blind man On the sightless horse, riding into the bottomless abyss.

Irrespective of todays judgment and the price we had to pay in this generation, we were able to close an epoch of divisions, different blocs and borders, opening the way for an era of globalization.

My country is in the grips of a major economic crisis. This is causing dramatic consequences for the very existence of Polish families. A permanent economic crisis in Poland may also have serious repercussions for Europe. Thus, Poland ought to be helped and deserves help.

The world needs leaders of vision instead of leaders on television.