Democratic Accountability Quotes by Vaclav Klaus

My main concern is the political dimension of European integration. This is one of the most important issues of all, as far as I'm…

— Vaclav Klaus

That means following a very restrictive fiscal and monetary policy which will squeeze the monopolies and cut their subsidies. On the micro level we…

— Vaclav Klaus

EU didn't advance our [Eastern Europe] democracy by a single millimeter.

— Vaclav Klaus

"not a scientific body capable of accurately assessing the facts about global warming".

— Vaclav Klaus

Nevertheless, there is another threat on the horizon. I see this threat in environmentalism which is becoming a new dominant ideology, if not a…

— Vaclav Klaus

Human relations tend to be more difficult when you're dealing with someone who weighs 30 kilograms more than you do. That's when you worry…

— Vaclav Klaus

The climate change debate is basically not about science; it is about ideology. It is not about global temperature; it is about the concept…

— Vaclav Klaus

I am afraid there are people who want to stop the economic growth, the rise in the standard of living (though not their own)…

— Vaclav Klaus

Communism was replaced by the threat of ambitious environmentalism.

— Vaclav Klaus

I do not consider the Lisbon Treaty to be a good thing for Europe, for the freedom of Europe, or for the Czech Republic.

— Vaclav Klaus

And finally, there is another danger: the emergence of nonideological but very aggressive 'isms,' which are really quite new. Let me at least name…

— Vaclav Klaus

To reduce the interpretation of the causality of all kinds of climate changes and of global warming to one variable, CO2, or to a…

— Vaclav Klaus