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Bronisław Komorowski Quotes

born 1952 Poland

Bronisław Maria Komorowski (born 4 June 1952) is a Polish politician and historian who served as President of Poland from 2010 to 2015. Komorowski served as Minister of Defence from 2000 to 2001.

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The times of the peace dividend following the end of the Cold War are over.

Everybody knows that voters dislike pay increases for politicians, and they enjoy it when money is taken away from politicians.

The wish for freedom is contagious, that's why all tyrants fear it. Freedom seen from close up inspires human strivings. Its triumphant march began in Poland.

We mustn’t let our hands be bound by commitments to third parties who do not meet their own obligations.

We do not want to diminish the achievements of others, but we want (...) others to remember that freedom began in Poland.

Poland seeks European solidarity notably by the deepening of the integration process and among other things by the deepening of the principle of solidarity between nations.

We are witnessing the rebirth of nationalist ideology which violates human rights and international law under the cover of humanitarian slogans about protecting minorities. We recognize this all too well from the 1930s.

We need to think how not to respond only to the crisis in Ukraine, not to extinguish the political, economic and military fire, but to start systematically support the modernization of Ukraine, to help it and itself to realize national goals.

My main message will be that perhaps the United Nations should be reformed to make the institution capable of addressing the threats that really exist today. I think blocking the Security Council on Ukraine is a token, a symptom, of the general weakness of the U.N.

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Quotes and notes from Wikiquote: Bronisław Komorowski (page history), available under CC BY-SA 4.0.