By the time I returned to Czechoslovakia, I had an understanding of the principles of the market. — Vaclav Klaus Copy Share Image
The largest threat to freedom, democracy, the market economy and prosperity, is no longer socialism. It is, instead, the ambitious, arrogant, unscrupulous… — Vaclav Klaus Copy Share Image
What we want is to establish the rules of a market economy - not to plan its outcome. — Vaclav Klaus Copy Share Image
As someone who lived under communism for most of my life I feel obliged to say that the biggest threat to freedom,… — Vaclav Klaus Copy Share Image
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 Copy Share Image
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 Copy Share Image
EU didn't advance our [Eastern Europe] democracy by a single millimeter. — Vaclav Klaus Copy Share Image
"not a scientific body capable of accurately assessing the facts about global warming". — Vaclav Klaus Copy Share Image
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 Copy Share Image
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 Copy Share Image
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 Copy Share Image
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 Copy Share Image
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 Copy Share Image
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 Copy Share Image
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 Copy Share Image
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