„Jan Olszewski was a man whose life, from very early years, was inextricably linked to the fight for a free and independent Poland. He even managed to be involved in the underground resistance, despite being born in August 1930. When the war ended, he wasn't even 15 years old. Later, the PSL, then the beautifully lived first half of the 1950s, when he was a man who set an example that in those hellishly difficult times, it was possible to live and study with dignity” - recalled the leader of PiS, Jarosław Kaczyński, on TVP Info.

„Later came KOR, Solidarity, the work in creating Solidarity. Then activity in independent Poland, creating the independence camp. He was a man who realized that the changes that took place in 1989 and in the following years were far from sufficient, that this was not yet what could be described as a truly democratic and truly independent state. He fought very consistently for this to change. It was a difficult fight. We haven't completely won it yet, but he was very involved in it. He was a man of statesman stature” - he added.