I was 25 years old and pursuing my doctorate in economics when I was allowed to spend six months of postgraduate studies… — Vaclav Klaus Copy Share Image
I was paid to read Western economic texts. In a way, the regime paid for their own undermining. — Vaclav Klaus Copy Share Image
People like me who were engaging in brinkmanship with the party economic bosses and the open dissidents who were being arrested were… — Vaclav Klaus Copy Share Image
To pursue a so-called Third Way is foolish. We had our experience with this in the 1960s when we looked for a… — Vaclav Klaus Copy Share Image
Being often with many leading politicians, I feel frustrated that they do not listen. They already know. They fully subscribed to the… — Vaclav Klaus Copy Share Image
But how can you speed up the transformation of society in a country as large as Russia? Those sounding the moral outcry… — 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