“A great Pope - our most outstanding fellow countryman, the Holy Father, a good father to all of us, believers and non-believers, followers of different religions - is no more.”
“We all live in a free Poland, and there would be no free Poland without you, ... Twenty-five years ago, I did not stand on the same side together with you, but today I have no doubts that it was your vision of Poland which led us in the right direction.”
“Following the Second World War, we are a country of one ethnicity. After the moving of the borders, after the tragedy of the Holocaust and the murder of Polish Jews, we don't have large minority groups,”
“Chancellor Schroeder tried to hide the obvious: he included the signature of this accord in his campaign ahead of the legislative elections of September 18,”