Poland Quotes - Page 4

• Poland is a sovereign state. We want the same rights as all other EU countries. Nothing more, but nothing less, either.

  Jaroslaw Kaczynski

  Country, Rights, Want

  Source: uk.businessinsider.com

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• In Poland, nobody is arrested or persecuted for political reasons.

  Jaroslaw Kaczynski

  Political, Reason, Persecuted

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• Some in the West apparently believe that Poland no longer has its own interests, and that it is all too willing to agree with the opinions of others. This is absolutely not the case. Indeed, other countries in Europe uphold their own interests with great determination.

  Lech Kaczynski

  Country, Determination, Believe

  Source: www.spiegel.de

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• Nations are an historic reality in Europe. They all have different histories, and they joined the EU at very different times and under widely differing circumstances. I was mayor of Warsaw for three years and always in favor of Poland joining the EU. But I also experienced how we had to implement EU regulations that were completely inappropriate to our situation.

  Lech Kaczynski

  Reality, Years, Europe

  Source: www.spiegel.de

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• Unfortunately, manipulation and defamation are part of the bad manners that have been prevailing in Poland's politics for ten years now.

  Jaroslaw Kaczynski

  Years, Manipulation, Manners

  Source: uk.businessinsider.com

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• You have to consider that countries have now joined the EU that had no sovereignty for decades, countries like Poland, or others that weren't even countries, like the Baltic states. Independence is especially important for these states.

  Lech Kaczynski

  Country, Independence, Important

  Source: www.spiegel.de

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• There are certainly major differences between Poland's policies and those of the old EU countries. Debates are going on in Brussels over a shared foreign policy and even a shared foreign minister.

  Lech Kaczynski

  Country, Differences, Debate

  Source: www.spiegel.de

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• Well the most likely emerging countries are Japan, Turkey, and Poland. So I would say Eastern Europe, the Middle East and a maritime war by Japan with the United States enjoying its own pleasures.

  George Friedman

  Country, War, Japan

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• I dressed all in black and went to see all the top photographers, like Irving Penn, and said, 'I am Veruschka who comes from the border between Russia, Germany and Poland. I'd like to see what you can do with my face.'

  Veruschka von Lehndorff

  Russia, Black, Germany

  Personal Quote, www.imdb.com.

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• A personal story of the horrors that Poles lived through during World War II. When God Looked the Other Way, above all else, explains why there is still a Poland. . . . One of the most remarkable World War II sagas I have ever read. It is history with a human face.

  Arnold Beichman

  War, Way, Faces

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• For Poland, the United States is the most important ally.

  Donald Tusk

  Important, Allies, United States

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• The Bundists did not wait for the Messiah, nor did they plan to leave for Palestine. They believed that Poland was their country and they fought for a just, socialist Poland, in which each nationality would have its own cultural autonomy, and in which minorities' rights would be guaranteed.

  Marek Edelman

  Country, Rights, Waiting

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• Isaac Singer was born in Poland and doesn't write in English. Still, he's an American.

  Irwin Shaw

  Writing, Literature, Singers

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• Poland is one of the few countries that can afford to conduct a conventional monetary policy and that means we have to act against the buildup of imbalances in the economy.

  Marek Belka

  Country, Mean, Imbalance

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• And in the last sentence I would like also to mention that Poland is one of the countries with which the United States has run strategic dialogues since last year.

  Marek Belka

  Running, Country, Years

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• I have invested in four social networks. More than any other. But that's in Russia and Poland.

  Yuri Milner

  Russia, Four, Social Network

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• However, I don't doubt that a wave of immigration will come to Poland.

  Aleksander Kwasniewski

  Doubt, Immigration, Wave

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• And I used to go the punk clubs such as a gay club in Poland Street that everyone would go to because it was the only place you could go to looking like that without getting beaten senseless.

  Gary Numan

  Gay, Clubs, Punk

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• Spring and summer 1942 was probably the worst period of internal terror in Slovakia. It was also the time of mass deportation of Slovak Jews to the extermination camps in Poland.

  Alexander Dubcek

  Summer, Spring, Deportation

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• In Poland, my audience is all women between 18 and 30. At U.S. conventions, you have the fantasy and science fiction crowd. At Harvard you have an entirely different audience. It's so schizophrenic.

  Jonathan Carroll

  Different, Fiction, Crowds

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• Poland does not want to remain a net recipient of EU subsidies forever. On the contrary: we want the right to develop in a fair market, and by this right, we want to one day catch up with Germany in terms of welfare and economic power. This will not take 100 years! And then many Poles who emigrated will be able to return home.

  Jaroslaw Kaczynski

  Home, Years, Forever

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• Poland is quite a mediocre country in some regards. The only natural resource that we have, and with which we can compete, is freedom.

  Donald Tusk

  Country, Natural, Resources

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• The First World War, and especially the latest one, largely swept away what was left in Europe of feudalism and of feudal landlords, especially in Poland, Hungary, and the South East generally.

  Emily Greene Balch

  War, Europe, East

  Emily Greene Balch (1972). “Beyond Nationalism: The Social Thought of Emily Greene Balch”, New York : Twayne Publishers

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• I married a German. Every night I dress up as Poland and he invades me.

  Bette Midler

  Funny, Humorous, Memorable

  "Song: 'Marriage, Movies, Madonna And Mick'". 1985.

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• President Lech Kaczynski is not at all active in Poland and his image abroad leaves a lot to be desired.

  Lech Walesa

  President, Active

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