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.

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

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.

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

I most sincerely wish that the world in which we live be free from the threat of a nuclear holocaust and from the ruinous arms race. It is my cherished desire that peace be not separated from freedom which is the right of every nation. This I desire and for this I pray.

The United States is only one superpower. Today they lead the world. Nobody has doubts about it. Militarily. They also lead economically but they're getting weak. But they don't lead morally and politically anymore. The world has no leadership. The United States was always the last resort and hope for all other nations. There was the hope, whenever something was going wrong, one could count on the United States. Today, we lost that hope.