Quotes from Donald Tusk


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My government is in no sense anti-Russian.


If we want to protect people against dictators or repression or torture, don't you need that rule to be universal so as to not end up with a situation where we do so only when it is comfortable, profitable and safe?


We are giving the citizens of Poland a sense that a reasonable and predictable government is ruling here.


The government has been repairing Poland's image and its relations with the European Union and the world.


Politics itself is not sacred any more.


Poles must understand history but we must also overcome it if it is obstructing our contemporary goals.


Poland is not a very large country, but it's also not a small country.


I spent an important part of my life participating in conflicts. But for me, conflict was not the main principle.


What we have to do is to definitively remove the last vestiges of power from those who treat terms such as 'liberal democracy,' 'free markets' and 'Europe' with suspicion.


We should believe in the strength and vitality of the values which constitute the E.U. and which neighbouring states can believe in and aspire to join.


In Poland we still believe - and this certainly applies to my government - that greater competitiveness, and greater growth and savings are possible in an economy which is as sparely regulated as possible, where freedom, competition and private ownership are key values.


I will be engaging myself personally, as the head of the Polish government, in the optimization of conditions for the exploration, research, logistics and the business related to the production of shale gas.


There is no Polish culture without Jewish culture.


If there's one country that can be trusted to understand the complexity of history, it's Israel.


I'm plain incapable of getting angry with Angela Merkel and likewise.


I got into politics a little bit by chance, as a person from the first generation of the Solidarity movement.


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


Communism was something so hideous that you had to be an exceptional conformist or a fool not to see the evil around you.


A word of truth can mobilise two peoples looking for the road to reconciliation.


My Kashubian family, like the Jews, are people who were born and live in border areas and were suspected by the Nazis and by the Communists of being disloyal.