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Because if you lived, as I did, several years under Nazi totalitarianism, and then 20 years in communist totalitarianism, you would certainly realize how precious freedom is, and how easy it is to lose your freedom.

I have taken an oath in my heart to oppose communism until the day I die.

Having lived through the transition from totalitarianism, I am acutely mindful of the need to never take for granted the basic freedoms of thought, expression and belief that democracy brings.

I fight, and have fought, for political freedom, for justice and for fairness and freedom of speech.

I have always been and will be an enemy of communism, but I love all people.

I'm a Communist, fully convinced and dedicated to my cause.

Communism everywhere has paid the price of rigidity and dogmatism. Freedom has the strength of compassion and flexibility. It has, above all, the strength of intellectual honesty.

I prize the conditions under which I have lived because they have permitted me to choose my opportunities, to inquire into such matters as interested me, and to publish what I believed to be true, uncontrolled by any central authority.

I am a Communist, a convinced Communist! For some that may be a fantasy. But to me it is my main goal.

I grew up in a socialist country. And I have seen what that does to people. There is no hope, no freedom. No pride in achievement.