Poland Quotes

((speech, 30th March 1940)) Although the fate of Poland stares them in the face, there are thoughtless dilettanti or purblind wordlings who sometimes ask us, `What is it that Britain and France are fighting for?` To this I answer, `If we left off fighting you would soon find out!`

I interviewed survivors, I went to Poland, saw the cities and spent time with the people and spoke to the Jews who had come back to Poland after the war and talked about why they had come back.

I can`t listen to that much Wagner. I start getting the urge to conquer Poland.

I was born in Poland I came to Sweden when I was eight and always wanted to act and suddenly ended up in a Bond movie which was for me at that time absolutely enormous.

I think that adult Polish audiences, while observing what was happening in Poland, started to give in to a particular kind of anxiety.

Nevertheless, in the theatre, and in the cinema, the contemporary reality of Poland has been represented only to a minuscule degree in the last 12 years.

And I used to go the punk clubs such as a gay club in Poland Street that everyone would go to because it was the only place you could go to looking like that without getting beaten senseless.

Everyone in Poland dreams about playing against England. It`s a prestigious fixture and Wednesday night is huge for us. We mustn`t have any fear or get caught up in the hype around England and their manager. We just have to go out and play our game.

We don`t like the criticism and after the Austria and Poland games we want to be able to go outside with our chests out and our heads held high.

We... our war began September the 3rd 1939, with the invasion of Poland by Germany, and thereafter the great state of danger in England at that time, with the bombings, necessitated the evacuation of children.

In Poland, my audience is all women between 18 and 30. At U.S. conventions, you have the fantasy and science fiction crowd. At Harvard you have an entirely different audience. It`s so schizophrenic.

There are enough Poles in Chicago to make up one of the largest cities in Poland.

Poland is an ally of the United States of America. It was our duty to show that we are a reliable, loyal, and predictable ally. America needed our help, and we had to give it.

My message to the Americans, to the American President, is that I am coming from Poland, which is in good shape; it is much different than ten years ago when last state visit from Poland was here in the United States.

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.

However, I don`t doubt that a wave of immigration will come to Poland.

But why EU is so interested to have Poland and some new countries inside, because it`s a huge mark. There`s almost 100 million people.

So I think that I can say, as the President of Poland, we`re proud that I am coming from Poland, which is different and what`s more important, much better than before.

Spring and summer 1942 was probably the worst period of internal terror in Slovakia. It was also the time of mass deportation of Slovak Jews to the extermination camps in Poland.

Isaac Singer was born in Poland and doesn`t write in English. Still, he`s an American.

There`s no question that Stalin broke the agreements made at Yalta completely about elections that were supposed to be held immediately in Poland, and Eastern Europe was plunged into slavery as a consequence.

We have a much higher penetration in countries like Brazil and Poland, where phone rates are high and service is hit or miss in some places.

Poland, of course, was the key country. I remember Stalin telling me that the plains of Poland were the invasion route of Europe to Russia and always had been, and therefore he had to control Poland.

Roosevelt was determined to stop Stalin from taking over Eastern Europe. He thought they finally had an agreement on Poland. Before Roosevelt died, he realized that Stalin had broken his agreement.

This imprisonment is shameful for a country like Poland, which has just joined the European Union and which is the sole member state to impose prison sentences on journalists for offences of opinion.

What an experience, to get to go to England and Poland for the first time. I was seeing the world and I wasn`t paying for it.