I belong to a nation which over the past centuries has experienced many hardships and reverses. The world reacted with silence or with mere sympathy when Polish frontiers were crossed by invading armies and the sovereign state had to succumb to brutal force.

This is the moment of your defeat; you have just put in the last nails in the coffin of communism.

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.

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

I can't imagine the right wing trying to unite without my participation.

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

Our firm conviction that ours is a just cause and that we must find a peaceful way to attain our goals gave us the strength and the awareness of the limits beyond which we must not go.