Top 35 Andrzej Duda Quotes

Both Poland and Canada should be advocates of long-‘lasting, peaceful solutions in eastern Ukraine, based on unconditional respect of international law.

I’m not going to argue with scientists how much human activity affects natural environment, including climate.

Poland is an attractive country, and first and foremost it’s got a very important strategic location in Europe.

Regardless of whether they voted for me or not, I would like Poles to say after those five years that I really tried to be the president of all Poles, that I tried to answer their needs, that I was such a person.

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.

Family is the future, security is the future, work is the future, investment is the future, dignity is the future.

Winning the presidential election with 70 percent of turnout is excellent news. I’m very moved.

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.

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.

From our point of view having American, Canadian or British troops on a rotating basis in Poland and in the Baltics would be an enormous boon to our defence capabilities.

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.

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

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

The E.U. has to be a community, thanks to which we are more secure, stronger, and we can achieve more. It shouldn’t be a structure which is associated by its citizens with prohibitions, orders and complicated regulations.

If the E.U. formally becomes a union of different speeds it would in effect be formally divided into better and worse members and it would to a large extent lose its attractiveness for those countries that were deemed second class.

If any part of the U.S. armed forces, which is the biggest armed forces in the world, was withdrawn from Europe, that would be very detrimental to European security.

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.

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.

I would very much like for us to set up permanent American bases in Poland, which we would call ‘Fort Trump.’

I’m sorry to say this, but Putin is spreading lies. He is doing this with the goal of removing Stalin’s Russia responsibility for starting the war jointly with Nazi Germany. I assumed he is ashamed of that.

Anyone who expresses anti-Semitic ideas in Poland is like a person who steps on a grave – a despicable act in Polish culture.

There is no plan today to fully give up on coal. Experts point out that our supplies run for another 200 years, and it would be hard not to use them.

We want a Union of free and equal nation states.

Parents are responsible for the sexual education of their children.

It is not possible for any institutions to interfere in the way parents raise their children.

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

I am the president of Poland, and I will never accept Poles being insulted or humiliated or facts being distorted that hurt our dignity.

Poland needs reform of the judiciary, but I am a supporter of a wise reform.

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

I think we can be confident that U.S. policy toward Poland and thus also our relations will not deteriorate, that at least they will not become weaker.

We are still faced, even in Europe, with the return of imperialist tendencies, attempts to change borders by force, assaults on other states, taking their land, enslaving citizens.

Those years when Poland was occupied by the Nazis was one of the darkest time in Poland’s history.

I am absolutely not in favor of any compulsory vaccinations. Vaccination against coronavirus should absolutely not be mandatory.

It is not in Poland’s interest that the U.K. leaves the European Union. We think it would lead to a big crisis and even a collapse if the U.K. left.

I believe that the E.U. should be the union of nation states and that all deepening of ties between the member states cannot go beyond the limits of democracy.