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

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.

I belong to the generation of workers who, born in the villages and hamlets of rural Poland, had the opportunity to acquire education and find employment in industry, becoming in the course conscious of their rights and importance in society.

The politicians always told us that the Cold War stand-off could only change by way of nuclear war. None of them believed that such systemic change was possible.

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.

I allowed myself to be taken in by the intellectuals. I believed too much in the Polish intellectuals and followed their advice.

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