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

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.

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

I got politics and economics moving and then others took over.

I'm lazy. But it's the lazy people who invented the wheel and the bicycle because they didn't like walking or carrying things.

Power is only important as an instrument for service to the powerless.

The hope of the nation which throughout the nineteenth century had not for a moment reconciled itself with the loss of independence, and fighting for its own freedom, fought at the same time for the freedom of other nations.