Poles must understand history but we must also overcome it if it is obstructing our contemporary goals.

What we have to do is to definitively remove the last vestiges of power from those who treat terms such as liberal democracy, free markets and Europe with suspicion.

I spent an important part of my life participating in conflicts. But for me, conflict was not the main principle.

We must go beyond being reactive and defensive. As Europeans we must regain our self-confidence and realize our own strengths.

Over the years, the European Union and the United States have worked together to ensure peace and prosperity for our citizens and for people around the world.

My Kashubian family, like the Jews, are people who were born and live in border areas and were suspected by the Nazis and by the Communists of being disloyal.

We should remind our American friends of their own motto: United we stand. Divided, we fall.

I got into politics a little bit by chance, as a person from the first generation of the Solidarity movement.

I am glad that Angela Merkel is the German Chancellor, as she tries to combine a sense of responsibility with morality and values. Because this is the essence of Europe.

The strategic partnership between the European Union and the United States is rooted in our shared values of freedom, human rights, democracy and a belief in the market economy.

My government is in no sense anti-Russian.

I sometimes think you despise poetry, ' said Phineas. 'When it is false I do. The difficulty is to know when it is false and when it is true.

I still love to eat, and my diet isn't perfect.

Apocalypse has become banal, a set of statistical risk parameters to everyone's existence.

Success can lead to complacency, and complacency is the greatest enemy of success.

An artist cannot do anything slovenly.

The best thing about improvements in health care is that all the climate-change deniers are now going to live long enough to see how wrong they were.

Is passion what we are? Is that what we are in pictures? Is what we are in pictures almost real? Maybe it's become the most real thing.

How do you know if a demon is lying? His lips are moving.

There are so many people in the closet, and we are giving them an opportunity to come out of the closet and just admit they like to smoke.

Nobody wants his cause near as bad as he wants to talk about his cause.