[A]ll NATO member states have free-market economies with the private sector playing the leading role...I commend the steps that you have made in this area. Small and medium enterprises are in private hands, and new, private businesses continue to be created...the mass privatization plan represents a major step toward giving the Polish people a direct stake in the economic future of their country.

But this is not the time to stop. I believe that large, state-owned enterprises should also be placed into the hands of private owners, so that they can be operated with economic, rather than political, interests in mind. For Poland to be in the vanguard of Western economies in the 21st century, businesses like banks, the energy sector, the state airline, the state copper producer, and the telecommunications monopoly will have to be privatized.