Poland Quotes - Page 6

• In Poland, for a while, my books all had cartoons on the cover. I trust my publishers in each country to know what works in their individual markets.

  Jodi Picoult

  Country, Book, Cartoon

  Source: nudge-book.com

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• It's a lesser-known story, but the Japanese government (after the Russian-Nazi pact, which split Poland) did allow Polish Jews to come to Japan, with the expectation that they would then be sent to the United States. But they weren't accepted, so they stayed in Japan.

  Noam Chomsky

  Government, Japan, Expectations

  Source: thehumanist.com

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• Just look at Poland, a sort of European perspective this has. So we have an interest in seeing this relationship be a good one. We have a lot of historical ties of course, a history that we share. But this mustn't keep us from wherever we feel there are very grave differences of opinion to raise them with them.

  Angela Merkel

  Differences, Ties, Perspective

  Source: time.com

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• The people in Poland had to deal with painful reforms.

  Lech Walesa

  People, Reform, Painful

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• 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.

  Aleksander Kwasniewski

  Thinking, Important, President

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• Ukraine will be reforming its energy sector because we want to integrate into Europe, ... We have conducted all the talks and reached an agreement with Azerbaijan, Kazakhstan, Poland and Georgia.

  Viktor Yushchenko

  Ukraine, Agreement, Azerbaijan

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• 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.

  Aleksander Kwasniewski

  Years, President, United States

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• In the wake of winning the war, Poland wants to help win peace with Iraq. I believe that the international community cannot leave Iraq without support.

  Aleksander Kwasniewski

  War, Believe, Winning

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• There is an abundance of ancient place names in the Ukraine and Poland, which derive from 'Khazar' or 'Zhid' (Jew).

  Arthur Koestler

  Ukraine, Names, Ancient

  Arthur Koestler (1976). “The thirteenth tribe: the Khazar empire and its heritage”, Random House Inc

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• In spite of the frightful pogroms which took place, first in Poland and then in unprecedented fashion in the Ukraine, and which cost the lives of thousands of Jews, the Jewish people considered the post-war period as a messianic era. Israel, during those years, 1919-1920, rejoiced in Eastern and Southern Europe, in Northern and Southern Africa, and above all in America.

  Denis Fahey

  Fashion, War, Israel

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• I've tried every kind of bottled water, but Poland Spring is my go-to. I always have room-temperature bottles of it on side of stage for post-performance.

  French Montana

  Spring, Water, Bottles

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• Growing up in Poland, I didn't have the experience of going to Disneyland as a child, so I don't have any childhood memories connected to it, good or bad.

  Abel Korzeniowski

  Children, Growing Up, Memories

  "Composer Abel Korzeniowski on Sundance, Scores, Career". Interview with Alex Billington, www.firstshowing.net. February 5, 2013.

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• My mother was born in the city, my dad was an immigrant. Probably from Germany. Could have been Austria, could have been Poland. The borders were changing. My dad brought over a large family of Shatners when he was very young. Scraped together the money, got 11 brothers and sisters a passage on the boat. There's a lot of Shatners in Montreal.

  William Shatner

  Mother, Brother, Dad

  Source: www.esquire.com

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• Religious liberty in a nation is as real as the liberty of its least popular religious minority. Look not to the size of cathedrals or even to the words on the statute books for proof of the reality of religious freedom. Ask what is the fate of the Protestant in Spain, the Jew in Saudi Arabia, the Arab in Israel, the Catholic in Poland or the atheist in the United States.

  Paul Blanshard

  Religious, Atheist, Real

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• In Poland a man must be one thing: white or black, here or there, with us or against us -- clearly, openly, without hesitations. . . . We lack the liberal, democratic tradition rich in all its gradations. We have instead the tradition of struggle: the extreme situation, the final gesture.

  Ryszard Kapuscinski

  Struggle, Men, White

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• A free peasant means free Poland, for he is the foundation of her greatness and independence.

  Wladyslaw Stanislaw Reymont

  Mean, Greatness, Independence

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• After visits to several Communist countries (USSR, Poland, Czechoslovakia, Slovenia, East Germany, Vietnam, China, Cuba), I feel strongly that most "revolutionary" types around the world don't realize the importance of freedom of the press and the air, a right to peaceably assemble and discuss anything, including the dangers of such discussions.

  Pete Seeger

  Country, East Germany, Air

  Source: portside.org

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• For two years now, my office has had the honour and the privilege of sponsoring seminars on the functioning of government in this country for Eastern Europeans. These seminars and exchanges have brought together representatives from such nations as Bulgaria, Hungary, the Czech and Slovak Republic, Roumania, Poland, Russia, Lithuania, Latvia, Estonia and the Ukraine, all of them anxious to learn what makes a society as diverse as Canada work and how our institutions make it governable.

  John Allen Fraser

  Country, Government, Ukraine

  "The House of Commons at Work". Book by John Fraser, 1993.

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• My family is from Russia and Poland. We never had that thing with the German Jews.

  Rhea Perlman

  Russia, My Family, Jew

  "Biography/Personal Quotes". www.imdb.com.

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• I am a citizen of the Soviet Union and I think sharp measures need to be taken against anti-Soviet forces that are trying to make their way into the leadership. In addition, it is vitally important to maintain the lines of communication with Germany through Poland.

  Konstantin Rokossovsky

  Communication, Taken, Thinking

  "Memoirs of Nikita Khrushchev". Book by Nikita Sergeevich Khrushchev, 2007.

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• The thing about World War II is that everyone knows about the concentration camps in Europe - in Nazi Germany and Poland and Auschwitz and the other camps - but, no one really talks about the camps that were here in the United States.

  Lea Salonga

  War, Europe, World

  "SOUND OFF Special Interview: Lea Salonga". Interview with Pat Cerasaro, www.broadwayworld.com. November 11, 2010.

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• The United States is the only country left now, bar Romania, Bulgaria and Poland, that has this all-government system.

  John Mica

  Country, Government, United States

  "TSA gives private security screeners green light in Orlando". "Your World" with Neil Cavuto, www.foxnews.com. June 12, 2012.

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• In their minds, the murderers and accomplices of Germany, and Poland, and Hungary, and so many, many other places didn't do something evil. They convinced themselves it was the right thing to do, the thing they had to do. That's what people do. And that should truly frighten us.

  James Comey

  People, Evil, Mind

  "Why I Require FBI Agents to Visit the Holocaust Museum". Speech at the U.S. Holocaust Memorial Museum, www.washingtonpost.com. April 16, 2015.

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• Dave and I as a couple seem to be the acceptable face of gayness, and that's great. I've got to use that power to try and do what I can - or we have - to try to make the situations in Russia and Poland better.

  Elton John

  Couple, Russia, Trying

  "When Elton met Jake". Interview with Jake Shears, www.theguardian.com. November 12, 2006.

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• That Solidarity was a religious movement no one, least of all the Soviets, can deny. In November 1981, Pravda denounced 'religious fanaticism' as a grave challenge to socialism; failure to contain it, Pravda said, was at the root of the problems in Poland.

  Charles Colson

  Christian, Religious, Roots

  Charles W. Colson (2010). “God and Government”, p.216, Zondervan

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