Lech Walesa

“I cannot stand for more than half an hour in one place.”

“My struggle led to the reunification of Germany and the creation of the state of Europe. We destroyed the borders; globalisation is on the horizon.”

“I don't like to look a man in the eye.”

“I had my own battle tactics.”

“Now is the era of intellect, information and the Internet.”

“Communists are great capitalists, so there is no threat anymore.”

“We have travelled so far in our technical advancements that we are no longer located in our own countries.”

“No minority should climb all over the majority.”

“The defense of our rights and our dignity, as well as efforts never to let ourselves to be overcome by the feeling of hatred - this is the road we have chosen.”

“I want to light the lights of patriotism.”

“Poles finished communism, and Great Britain profited significantly from this.”

“I hope to work harder than ever to help people around the world.”

“You have riches and freedom here but I feel no sense of faith or direction. You have so many computers, why don't you use them in the search for love?”

“I'm lazy. But it's the lazy people who invented the wheel and the bicycle because they didn't like walking or carrying things.”

“We were hoping Obama would reclaim moral leadership for America. That failed.”

“The politicians always told us that the Cold War stand-off could only change by way of nuclear war. None of them believed that such systemic change was possible.”

“I made the right decisions, I set everything on the right course, the reforms are going in the right direction.”

“The program of our movement stems from the fundamental moral laws and order.”

“The hope of the nation which throughout the nineteenth century had not for a moment reconciled itself with the loss of independence, and fighting for its own freedom, fought at the same time for the freedom of other nations.”

“Freedom must be gained step by step, slowly. Freedom is a food which must be carefully administered when people are too hungry for it.”