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

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 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.

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

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.

People who insist on telling their dreams are among the terrors of the breakfast table.

Fantasy mirrors desire. Imagination reshapes it.

Normalcy to me is enjoying the simple things in life.

There is Peter Graf, Steffi's father, with his head on his chin.

In the future, I'll be braver, she told herself. In the future, I will always speak my mind, eloquently, passionately.

On pavements and the bark of trees I have found whole worlds.

I love eggs so much. I feel like my day hasn't started until I've had eggs. I'm probably gonna die from high cholesterol!

Every veil secretly desires to be lifted, except the veil of Hypocrisy.

They are a special breed-like normal accountants, but without the soppy sentimentality. These are the oncologists of market capitalism.

I'm the sort of person who takes a camera to dinner or a nightclub because I enjoy taking pictures of people. I tweet all my pictures, which is bad.