Poland
- "Nie chcem ale muszem" ("I don't want, but I have to" with his characteristical pronunciation) Polish President Lech Wałęsa - Wałęsa motivated his political career after People's Republic of Poland period.
- "Spieprzaj dziadu!" ("Piss off, old man!") Polish President Lech Kaczyński – said to a man on the street during the 2002 Warsaw mayoral campaign.
- "Żeby nie było niczego" ("So that there wouldn't be anything") Polish candidate for mayor of Białystok Krzysztof Kononowicz.
- "Nie pierwszy raz staje mi... przychodzi mi stawać przed Izbą" (this mistake came from the wrong usage of the passive voice, creating a colloquial sentence. The only possible translation of that phrase is: "It's not the first time when I get a hard-on... I get to speak in the Parliament.") by Polish member of parliament Józef Zych. He was awarded Silver Mouth 2005 prize as a result of this gaffe.
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“It is often said that Poland is a country where there is anti-semitism and no Jews, which is pathology in its purest state.”
—Bronislaw Geremek (b. 1932)