Lech Walesa

I am still fighting for a better Poland.

I was just a tool in the hands of God.

The truth is like a nail. The harder you hit it, the deeper it goes.

I am not a dictator. I am a democrat.

I have always been on the side of the people.

My job is to unite, not to divide.

We must not forget our history, but we must also look to the future.

I am a man of paradoxes.

I never wanted to be a hero. I just wanted to do my duty.

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 am both for - and against.

I will build democracy - democratically, semi-demo cratically and even undemocratically.

I won't do anything bad, and if I do, I will apologise.

The country needs political balance; the government is its left leg, the parliament is its right leg and I am in between.

I will tell you directly in a roundabout way.

At a certain moment I had to descend from the trees and stop making faces ... I have simply begun to calculate, to be flexible and smart.

I will not bring the army or the police on to the streets. I will not shoot at Poles, even if only because I have the Nobel Peace Prize.

My critics say that I should speak better ... that I should read the things they write for me. But I have another principle, gentlemen, and that is to get things done.

The bed was so big that I couldn't find my wife in it.

My name is President.