Andrzej Duda

“I am the president of Poland, and I will never accept Poles being insulted or humiliated or facts being distorted that hurt our dignity.”

“The members of my people who took part in the pogrom in Kielce after the end of World War II expelled themselves from the Polish people. That is my deep personal conviction.”

“No one from abroad can dictate to us whether Poles are allowed to defend themselves against slandering.”

“Poles and Jews have been living on this land together for almost 1,000 years. Who can tell how much Jewish blood is in their veins? Nobody knows, so to talk about how to recognize if someone is Jewish is ridiculous.”

“I personally never get vaccinated for the flu, because no.”

“We are still faced, even in Europe, with the return of imperialist tendencies, attempts to change borders by force, assaults on other states, taking their land, enslaving citizens.”

“Those years when Poland was occupied by the Nazis was one of the darkest time in Poland's history.”

“What it depends on is someone's upbringing and the traditions and that is how you decide if you are Jewish or not.”

“There is a threat of Russian energy domination, especially when Russia mentions that it's going to build more pipelines - Nord Stream III, Nord Stream IV.”

“I will never agree with statements that Poles as a nation participated in the Holocaust or Poland participated in the Holocaust. It humiliates us and hurts us.”

“Poland is an attractive country, and first and foremost it's got a very important strategic location in Europe.”

“A lot of young Poles, very well educated ones, are living in Britain. They are working hard. Of course they are building their own prosperity, but they are also contributing to the economic prosperity of the United Kingdom and surely I can say - and this is underpinned by the economic data - they bring in more than they take away.”

“We should do everything we can to demonstrate to the U.K. the attractiveness of the E.U.”

“Regardless of whether they voted for me or not, I would like Poles to say after those five years that I really tried to be the president of all Poles, that I tried to answer their needs, that I was such a person.”

“I unequivocally repeat: marriage in accordance with the Polish Constitution is a union between a man and a woman.”

“I believe it lies in the interests of Poland that our representatives are in the most prestigious positions, both in the European and global arena.”

“Distorting the history of World War II, denying the crimes of genocide and the Holocaust as well as an instrumental use of Auschwitz to attain any given goal is tantamount to desecration of the memory of the victims whose ashes are scattered here.”

“History is sometimes hard. We study it and try to discover facts.”

“If any part of the U.S. armed forces, which is the biggest armed forces in the world, was withdrawn from Europe, that would be very detrimental to European security.”

“Our country vanished from the map of Europe after the attack of the Soviet Union against Poland. That is our history. It is a very difficult one.”