The thing that lies at the foundation of positive change, the way I see it, is service to a fellow human being.
It is hardly possible to build anything if frustration, bitterness and a mood of helplessness prevail.
I'm lazy. But it's the lazy people who invented the wheel and the bicycle because they didn't like walking or carrying things.
I'm a man of faith. I only fear God, and my wife - sometimes.
I want to light the lights of patriotism.
We hold our heads high, despite the price we have paid, because freedom is priceless.
The sole and basic source of our strength is the solidarity of workers, peasants and the intelligentsia, the solidarity of the nation, the solidarity of people who seek to live in dignity, truth, and in harmony with their conscience.
He who puts out his hand to stop the wheel of history will have his fingers crushed.
Obviously people want social calm, but if you do not let clever and ingenious people to participate, obviously there must be some dormant volcano that will erupt, sooner or later.
As a nation we have the right to decide our own affairs, to mould our own future. This does not pose any danger to anybody. Our nation is fully aware of the responsibility for its own fate in the complicated situation of the contemporary world.
The fall of the Berlin Wall makes for nice pictures. But it all started in the shipyards.
Communism is a monopolistic system, economically and politically. The system suppresses individual initiative, and the 21st century is all about individualism and freedom. The development of technology supported these directions.
My struggle led to the reunification of Germany and the creation of the state of Europe. We destroyed the borders; globalisation is on the horizon.
Our firm conviction that ours is a just cause and that we must find a peaceful way to attain our goals gave us the strength and the awareness of the limits beyond which we must not go.
Authority must be respected and chosen wisely.
The supply of words in the world market is plentiful but the demand is falling. Let deeds follow words now.
I must tell you that the supply of words on the world market is plentiful, but the demand is falling.
Dictators and oppressors should continue to fear me because I will be here for a long time.
Communism is a monopolistic system, economically and politically.
When I was fighting communism, there was rapid development of satellite television and cell phones, and communism, to survive, would have to block all these information devices.
