Irrespective of todays judgment and the price we had to pay in this generation, we were able to close an epoch of divisions, different blocs and borders, opening the way for an era of globalization.

The people in Poland had to deal with painful reforms.

The fall of the Berlin Wall makes for nice pictures. But it all started in the shipyards.

The sole and basic source of our strength is the solidarity of workers, peasants and the intelligentsia, the solidarity of the nation, the solidarity of people who seek to live in dignity, truth, and in harmony with their conscience.

Freedom must be gained step by step, slowly. Freedom is a food which must be carefully administered when people are too hungry for it.

I am overjoyed that I do not need a heart transplant at this time.

I want to light the lights of patriotism.