Quotes from Andrzej Duda

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.

I'm hugely delighted with the presence of U.S. Armed Forces in the Polish territory.

I personally never get vaccinated for the flu, because no.

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

There is a threat of Russian energy domination, especially when Russia mentions that it's going to build more pipelines - Nord Stream III, Nord Stream IV.

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.

Without the reform of the justice system, there is no possibility of building a just state.

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.

The truth about the Holocaust must not die.

I am an honest person, and that is why I can admit historical facts and I will never try to contradict them.

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

There are Jews who were born in Poland before World War II and survived the Holocaust, who think Poland and the Poles deserve an apology.

Distorting the history of World War II, denying the crimes of genocide and the Holocaust as well as an instrumental use of Auschwitz to attain any given goal is tantamount to desecration of the memory of the victims whose ashes are scattered here.

The members of my people who took part in the pogrom in Kielce after the end of World War II expelled themselves from the Polish people. That is my deep personal conviction.

I believe it lies in the interests of Poland that our representatives are in the most prestigious positions, both in the European and global arena.

During the entire communist era, communist ideology was imposed on children. That was Bolshevism.

Closing one's eyes is not a recipe for peace. It is a simple way to embolden aggressive personalities.

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.

I find it very easy and good to cooperate with President Donald Trump. Because he's very down to earth, very concrete. He tells me what he wants; he asks me what he can get from us.

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

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.

We continue to advocate and demand that the territorial integrity of both Ukraine and Georgia be preserved... It is absolutely unacceptable that in the 21st century, Russia is shifting borders in Europe by force.

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.

NATO should demonstrate that it is capable of creating new forces which would protect its eastern flank. It would constitute an enormous change.