This conviction brought me, in the summer of 1978, to the Free Trade Unions - formed by a group of courageous and dedicated people who came out in the defense of the workers' rights and dignity.

[Without Pope John Paul II] there would be no end of Communism or at least much later, and the end would have been bloody.

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

My country is in the grips of a major economic crisis. This is causing dramatic consequences for the very existence of Polish families. A permanent economic crisis in Poland may also have serious repercussions for Europe. Thus, Poland ought to be helped and deserves help.

You should go to the polls, organize yourself. But once lawmakers are chosen, they must be respected.

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.

I had my own battle tactics.