We should believe in the strength and vitality of the values which constitute the E.U. and which neighbouring states can believe in and aspire to join.

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.

When someone you love makes compassion, kindness, forgiveness, respect and God an option, you can be sure they have made you an option, as well.

Many of us are frightened to look within ourselves, and fear has us put up walls so thick we no longer remember who we really are.

There is probably an element of malice in our readiness to overestimate people - we are, as it were, laying up for ourselves the pleasure of later cutting them down to size.

I'm trying to get a thicker skin. I like to be aware of people's perceptions of me, but when you put it as a priority, as a means to judging your worth, that's when it can be dangerous.

Your understanding of a place changes the longer you stay; you discover more, and your own life gets woven into the fabric of the community.

True happiness must arise from well-regulated affections, and an affection includes a duty.

People are always going to have opinions, and people have a right to their opinions.

If people associate you with the idea of loads of money, they in turn will give some of that money to you.

The danger of the Web is that you can go from idea to public announcement in under ten minutes.

we are drawn to each other like drops of water, like the planets we repulse each other like magnets, like the color of our skin.