Aleksander Quotes

#1. I want you to know my name.
The name I was given, not the title I took for myself.
Will you have it?

"Yes"

"Aleksander

Leigh Bardugo

#2. Aleksander."
His eyes fluttered shut. "Don't let me be alone," he murmured. And then he was gone.

Leigh Bardugo

#3. Aleksander," I whispered. A boy's name, given up. Almost forgotten.

Leigh Bardugo

#4. Will you say it?

"Aleksander"

His grin faded and his grey eyes seemed to flicker.

"Again."

"Aleksander

Leigh Bardugo

#5. For the 'Rai-kirah' books, I began with the image of Aleksander riding the great wastelands, and that quickly morphed into the desert. Because I wanted my slave market cold and miserable, I chose to set the opening scene in the empire's summer capital in the mountains.

Carol Berg

#6. So I think that is from the European perspective, for the European future, this engagement can be one of the most important and effective decisions in the last 50 years maybe.

Aleksander Kwasniewski

#7. And we want to develop our strategy to partnership and friendship with the United States, which is connected with a very rich history but what is very important for our future.

Aleksander Kwasniewski

#8. Well, we are very glad that Russia is so close with NATO.

Aleksander Kwasniewski

#9. Righteous is the one who was able to demonstrate compassion in face of human suffering.

Aleksander Kwasniewski

#10. In my opinion, terrorism is a question which is not a short- term problem for all of us. It is a long-term fight. And NATO can play, and will play, a very crucial role in this struggle.

Aleksander Kwasniewski

#11. To be in the EU, it means to have same rules of ... for economy, for social life, to be together in the majority of European countries.

Aleksander Kwasniewski

#12. 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

#13. Every man is responsible only for his own acts. The sons do not inherit the sins of the fathers. But can we say: that was long ago, they were different?

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#14. I personally think that today, Iraq without Saddam Hussein is a truly better Iraq than with Saddam Hussein, but naturally I also feel uncomfortable due to the fact that we were misled with the information on weapons of mass destruction.

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#15. We all live in a free Poland, and there would be no free Poland without you, Twenty-five years ago, I did not stand on the same side together with you, but today I have no doubts that it was your vision of Poland which led us in the right direction.

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#16. We have become aware of the responsibility for our attitude towards the dark pages in our history. We have understood that bad service is done to the nation by those who are impelling to renounce that past.

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#17. What if I'm no better than you? What if instead of stopping you, I'm just another avalanche?

Leigh Bardugo

#18. There is simply no room for anti-Semitism in a democratic and law-abiding state.

Aleksander Kwasniewski

#19. 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

#20. I will tell you a story, one I used to tell to a little boy with dark hair. A silent boy who rarely laughs, who listened more closely than I realized. A boy who had a name and not a title

Leigh Bardugo

#21. We know enough to stand here in truth - facing pain, cry and suffering of those who were murdered here. Face to face with the victims' families who are here today. Before the judgment of our own conscience.

Aleksander Kwasniewski

#22. And I think to be in NATO for the countries of our region, it means more guarantees for us, it means more responsibility for our common security, but it means fulfillment of all standards of civilized world, like protection of human rights and democratic mechanisms.

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#23. Following the Second World War, we are a country of one ethnicity. After the moving of the borders, after the tragedy of the Holocaust and the murder of Polish Jews, we don't have large minority groups.

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#24. Technology should be an important ingredient. It may be and should be a tool for social development.

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#25. In this moment he was just a boy -brilliant, blessed with too much power, burdened by eternity.

Leigh Bardugo

#26. However, I don't doubt that a wave of immigration will come to Poland.

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#27. We are a strong democratic country.

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#28. We're in a place where no words can tell the truth about what happened ... But they have to. This was hell on earth.

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#29. The nation is a community. Community of individuals, community of generations.

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#30. So I think that is one of the reasons we can face some regional problems, which are very difficult, very dramatic and is necessary to have instruments to solve these problems. NATO is such instrument.

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#31. And still the time, especially in the economy, is very tough, very difficult. It's necessary to be active still, to work, to fight, to make our economy more competitive.

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#32. We welcome, we welcome this good cooperation between Russia and NATO.

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#33. 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