Andrzej Duda Quotes

Andrzej Duda

Profession : Politician

Birth : May 16, 1972

I will never agree with statements that Poles as a nation participated in the Holocaust or Poland participated in the Holocaust. It humiliates us and hurts us.

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I find it very easy and good to cooperate with President Donald Trump. Because he's very down to earth, very concrete. He tells me what he wants; he asks me what he can get from us.

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What I find very painful are all these charges that democracy is really shaken in Poland, that we have been switching into some authoritarian regime.

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If someone is undertaking aggressive military activities in Ukraine and Syria, if someone is bolstering his military presence near his neighbors... then we have an unequivocal answer regarding who wants to start a new Cold War. Certainly, it is not Poland or the NATO alliance.

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We want a Union of free and equal nation states.

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No one from abroad can dictate to us whether Poles are allowed to defend themselves against slandering.

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It is crucial to maintain the political equality among the member states, which is fundamental to the community. At the same time we have to counteract the natural tendencies to create a hierarchy inside the E.U.

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I want significant parts of Nato infrastructure, important for the alliance, to be placed in the central Europe.

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There are some issues where we have common interests with Germany, there are some others that we don't... The diplomacy between good neighbors doesn't mean nodding one to another.

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What it depends on is someone's upbringing and the traditions and that is how you decide if you are Jewish or not.

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As Polish society we cannot live with the term 'Polish death camps' or 'Polish concentration camps.'

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If you ask the Polish people, I believe that a vast majority of them would say they are pleased with E.U. membership, but also a majority consider very highly the sovereignty and independence of Poland - they are very attached to Polish tradition.

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Nato has always acted according to a simple principle: it is not worth attacking somebody who is strong.

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During the entire communist era, communist ideology was imposed on children. That was Bolshevism.

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Poland is a big European country. I believe it is an interesting partner where the United States and the U.S. business is very much welcome.

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I'm hugely delighted with the presence of U.S. Armed Forces in the Polish territory.

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I'm deeply satisfied with the decisions that were taken by Warsaw NATO Summit in 2016, where the presence of the military forces of NATO in Poland was guaranteed.

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Of course we have the right to have expectations towards Europe - especially towards the Europe that left us to be the prey of the Russians in 1945 - but above all we have the right to rule ourselves here on our own and decide what form Poland should have.

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I unequivocally repeat: marriage in accordance with the Polish Constitution is a union between a man and a woman.

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The best course of action for Poland would be to have U.S. troops stationed on its territory. It's the only way to guarantee the country's security.

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