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Quotes About Poland

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
I can confirm that Poland should become a eurozone country, and not just because of the treaties that have been signed, but because I consider it of strategic interest both for Poland and the E.U.
~ Donald Tusk
Poland is not a very large country, but it's also not a small country.
~ Donald Tusk
I am not a Polack. People from Poland are Poles, not Polacks. But what I am is one-hundred-per-cent American, born and raised in the greatest country on earth and proud as hell of it, so don't ever call me a Polack.
~ Tennessee Williams
Shoot the dictator and prevent the war? But the dictator is merely the tip of the whole festering boil of social pus from which dictators emerge; shoot him and there'll be another one along in a minute. Shoot him too? Why not shoot everyone and invade Poland?
~ Terry Pratchett
But if the doctrine of Fast-Fish be pretty generally applicable, the kindred doctrine of Loose-Fish is still more widely so. That is internationally and universally applicable. What was America in 1492 but a Loose-Fish, in which Columbus struck the Spanish standard by way of waifing it for his royal master and mistress? What was Poland to the Czar? What Greece to the Turk? What India to England? What at last will Mexico be to the United States? All Loose-Fish.
~ Herman Melville
An effort was made to spread this new materialist atheism with its Communist consequence by the sword (as the metaphor goes), that is, by the invasion of neighboring countries with consequent further massacres and the extension of the area of despotic Soviet control... This armed attempt at expansion was checked by Catholic Poland, the most immediately exposed victim, in what has been called one of the decisive battles of the world.
~ Hilaire Belloc
As a Jew, even if you were not born in Poland, the very name, Poland, gives rise to a shuddering in your body and a longing in your heart. This country was the breeding ground for the soul of the Jewish nation, and unfortunately, also grounds to the largest Jewish cemetery.
~ Reuven Rivlin
We can still hear the voices that echo through history. Their message is as true today as ever. The people of Poland, the people of America, and the people of Europe still cry out "We want God."
~ Donald Trump
I have invested in four social networks. More than any other. But that's in Russia and Poland.
~ Yuri Milner
My most ardent desire is that my country will recapture its historic opportunity for a peaceful evolution and that Poland will prove to the world that even the most complex situations can be solved by a dialogue and not by force.
~ Lech Walesa
Ondertussen stelde Polen de grenzen open voor Oost-Duitse vluchtelingen op doorreis. In Moskou verklaarde een regeringswoordvoerder tegenover buitenlandse journalisten dat de Brezjnevdoctrine van militaire interventies was vervangen door de 'Sinatradoctrine': 'My Way'.
~ Geert Mak
Poland is like an island on the north European plain. At times the island has been swamped by a tide of iron or steel helmets converging from Germany and Russia. At times it has drifted suddenly with the current; if the continent of Africa had drifted relatively as much as the boundaries of Poland have drifted in the last two hundred years, then Africa would at one time have touched the north pole and at another the south pole.
~ Geoffrey Blainey
My parents were Zionists born in Poland. My father was a rabbi who didn't know much about science and ran a grocery store in the neighborhood with my mother's help.
~ Ada Yonath
The Holocaust committed by the Nazis turned this country, where most of the European Jews used to live and where their culture used to flourish, into a massive grave. This is why initiatives to revive Jewish culture in Poland is so important.
~ Marek Belka
Twenty-two years I've been doing this comedy lark, so it's been like a meteoric rise to fame... if the meteor was being dragged by an arthritic donkey across a ploughed field, in northern Poland.
~ Bill Bailey
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.
~ Steven Spielberg
Germany has concluded a Non-Aggression Pact with Poland. We shall adhere to it unconditionally. We recognize Poland as the home of a great and nationally conscious people.
~ Adolf Hitler
Well the most likely emerging countries are Japan, Turkey, and Poland. So I would say Eastern Europe, the Middle East and a maritime war by Japan with the United States enjoying its own pleasures.
~ George Friedman
Why should this war in the West be fought for the restoration of Poland? The Poland of the Versailles Treaty will never rise again.
~ Adolf Hitler
Reszta uciekÅ'a lub zostaÅ'a wypÄ™dzona. wielkie skupiska ?ydowskiej ludnoÅ›ci wystÄ™powaÅ'y w Polsce (milion osiemset tysiÄ™cy) i Rosji (pi?? milionów). Z praktycznego punktu widzenia uÅ'atwiaÅ'o to Hitlerowi realizacjÄ™ planu eksterminacji, wystarczyÅ'o bowiem napa?? i zdoby? oba te kraje.
~ Sven Lindqvist
History must give the Poles the principal credit for bringing the Soviet bloc to its knees.
~ Norman Davies
Our country vanished from the map of Europe after the attack of the Soviet Union against Poland. That is our history. It is a very difficult one.
~ Andrzej Duda
For 167 days in 1925 two Polish researchers ate almost nothing but potatoes (mashed with butter, steamed with salt, cut with oil into potato salad). At the end they reported no weight gain, no health problems, and, improbably, "no craving for change" in their diet.
~ Charles C. Mann