My government is in no sense anti-Russian.

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.

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.

I know I could be Anything, But i rather Be Myself.

Learn always and wherever possible, knowing that you'll never learneverything.

half truths equal whole lies

Some people say, 'Save yourself and you save your ways.' I say, 'Be yourself and you save your soul.

Perhaps fiction has, for me, served a similar purpose--what is a narrative arc if not the imposition of order on disparate events?--and perhaps it is my avid reading that has been my faith all along.

The question was not how to get a job, but how to live by such jobs as I could get.

I'm largely in favor of financial reform.

A good death does honour to a whole life.

Now the wren has gone to roost and the sky is turnin' gold Turnin' from the past, at last and all I've left behind.

The world shrieks and sinks talons into our hearts. This we call memory.