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

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.

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.

My government is in no sense anti-Russian.

Digital leaders including board directors today need to understand that the linear management skills are not sufficient to lead today’s nonlinear digital world with the deep learning curve.

In essence, innovation is the use of something that is new and unique, and you are able to create its business value.

I didn't really understand community until I moved to New Orleans.

Naturalness is the easiest thing in the world to acquire, if you will forget yourself-forget about the impression you are trying to make.

Normally it is not polite to go into somebody’s room without knocking, but you can make an exception if the person is dead, or pretending to be dead.

Just as words in their proper places form sentences, each individual strike must be done in the proper order to get the desired result: a flat stone blade.

Where I grew up, the basketball courts were rarely used.

I actually may do a musical next year... not one that I've written; one that I may star in. Plus my concert and other people's work and all of a sudden you've got a very full life.

Bear in mind that the measure of a man is the worth of the things he cares about. If it is good to say or do something, then it is even better to be criticized for having said or done it.

Here's a story that I really want to tell about Bo Diddley at the OK corral.