Former Presidents
Since former Presidents of Poland are for the most part well-known, public figures (quite often of celebrity status) each of them is entitled to lifetime personal protection (though only within state limits) by Biuro Ochrony Rządu officers, in addition to receiving a substantial pension and being given a private office.
As of 2012, three former Presidents of Poland are alive:
Also, three former Acting Presidents are alive:
- Bronisław Komorowski (2010, currently also President)
- Bogdan Borusewicz (2010)
- Grzegorz Schetyna (2010)
On 10 April 2010, two Presidents of Poland, Lech Kaczyński (current at that time) and Ryszard Kaczorowski, died in the 2010 Polish Air Force Tu-154 crash.
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Famous quotes containing the word presidents:
“All Presidents start out to run a crusade but after a couple of years they find they are running something less heroic and much more intractable: namely the presidency. The people are well cured by then of election fever, during which they think they are choosing Moses. In the third year, they look on the man as a sinner and a bumbler and begin to poke around for rumours of another Messiah.”
—Alistair Cooke (b. 1908)
“Governments can err, Presidents do make mistakes, but the immortal Dante tells us that divine justice weighs the sins of the cold-blooded and the sins of the warm-hearted in different scales. Better the occasional faults of a Government that lives in a spirit of charity than the constant omission of a Government frozen in the ice of its own indifference.”
—Franklin D. Roosevelt (1882–1945)