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

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.

Building democracy as an imposition from abroad is a form of imperialism.

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

In many parts of the world the people are searching for a solution which would link the two basic values: peace and justice. The two are like bread and salt for mankind.

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

I believed it would succeed. It was Polish Solidarity and its victory that put an end to the old era when what mattered were borders and rival blocs.