I believe that any violation of privacy is nothing good.

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

When I was fighting communism, there was rapid development of satellite television and cell phones, and communism, to survive, would have to block all these information devices.

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

This conviction brought me, in the summer of 1978, to the Free Trade Unions - formed by a group of courageous and dedicated people who came out in the defense of the workers' rights and dignity.

We hold our heads high, despite the price we have paid, because freedom is priceless.

What until then seemed impossible to achieve has become a fact of life. We have won the right to association in trade unions independent from the authorities, founded and shaped by the working people themselves.