I had my own battle tactics.

We shall not yield to violence. We shall not be deprived of union freedoms. We shall never agree with sending people to prison for their convictions.

We must be courageous but also reasonable. The world admires us for walking a tightrope without falling off. It asks us to keep our balance.

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

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

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

It is hardly possible to build anything if frustration, bitterness and a mood of helplessness prevail.