Humorous Sayings

Doesn't your father give you a slap on your face?

If I don't break it, it can't stand?

There is no fundamental contradiction between socialism and a market economy.

Let some people get rich first.

How would the Soviet Union dare to invade China if the superpower couldn't even take over Afghanistan?

You have to walk your own path.

This man may look smart but in fact is stupid.

I don't think of myself as unbreakable. Perhaps I'm just rather flexible and adaptable.

If you look at the democratic process as a game of chess, there have to be many, many moves before you get to checkmate. And simply because you do not make any checkmate in three moves does not mean it's stalemate. There's a vast difference between n…

I don't believe in professional dissidents. I think it's just a phase, like adolescence.

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.