Vaclav Klaus

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

— Vaclav Klaus

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

— 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…

— 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…

— Vaclav Klaus

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

— Vaclav Klaus

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

— 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…

— Vaclav Klaus

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

— Vaclav Klaus

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

— Vaclav Klaus

I was 25 years old and pursuing my doctorate in economics when I was allowed to spend six months of postgraduate studies…

— Vaclav Klaus

Common foreign policy is completely unnecessary. The various European countries have widely differing priorities, goals and prejudices. It would be wrong to…

— Vaclav Klaus

I don't think there is any global warming. I don't see the statistical data for that.

— Vaclav Klaus

To talk about planning an economic system is to talk in old terms, and I find myself sometimes having to teach Westers…

— Vaclav Klaus

I also helped write the five-page statement of principles that Civic Forum issued in late November. That was the first public expression…

— Vaclav Klaus

I was paid to read Western economic texts. In a way, the regime paid for their own undermining.

— Vaclav Klaus

“When we, in the communist countries, came across the ideas of Hayek and Aron, we had no problems to understand their importance.…

— Vaclav Klaus

I'm convinced that after years of studying the phenomenon, global warming is not the real issue of temperature. That is the issue…

— Vaclav Klaus

Then in 1969, I spent the spring term at Cornell University in New York. The invasion of August 1968 had already happened,…

— Vaclav Klaus

It is obvious that the monetary union among 17 very different European countries does not work. As an economist, I know that…

— Vaclav Klaus

The development of European integration can be divided into two phases. The first era ended with the Maastricht Treaty. It was a…

— Vaclav Klaus

By the time I returned to Czechoslovakia, I had an understanding of the principles of the market.

— Vaclav Klaus

You cannot have democratic accountability in anything bigger than a nation state.

— Vaclav Klaus