Vaclav Klaus Quotes

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• Climate alarmists believe in their own omnipotency, in knowing better than millions of rationally behaving men and women what is right or wrong, in the…
• I am afraid there are people who want to stop the economic growth, the rise in the standard of living (though not their own) and…
• Being often with many leading politicians, I feel frustrated that they do not listen. They already know. They fully subscribed to the idea that talking…
• As someone who lived under communism for most of my life I feel obliged to say that the biggest threat to freedom, democracy, the market…
• The climate change debate is basically not about science; it is about ideology. It is not about global temperature; it is about the concept of…
• "not a scientific body capable of accurately assessing the facts about global warming".
• What is concisely referred to as global warming, is a fatal mistake of the present time.
• Other top-level politicians do not express their global warming doubts because a whip of political correctness strangles their voice.
• To talk about planning an economic system is to talk in old terms, and I find myself sometimes having to teach Westers about what the…
• I never intended to be a politician or office-seeker.
• By the time I returned to Czechoslovakia, I had an understanding of the principles of the market.
• I also helped write the five-page statement of principles that Civic Forum issued in late November. That was the first public expression of what the…
• Global warming is a false myth and every serious person and scientist says so. It is not fair to refer to the U.N. panel. The…
• It is what makes the reform process an art, not just a science. You have to develop a strategy that tells you what reform measures…
• This is crossing the Rubicon, after which there will be no more sovereign states in Europe with fully-fledged governments and parliaments which represent legitimate interests…
• People like me who were engaging in brinkmanship with the party economic bosses and the open dissidents who were being arrested were pursuing a common…
• I was paid to read Western economic texts. In a way, the regime paid for their own undermining.
• Then in 1969, I spent the spring term at Cornell University in New York. The invasion of August 1968 had already happened, but the hardline…
• The message of [Fahernheit 9/11] is very weak and propagandistic ... We were used to such messages in the communist days. Everybody has open eyes…
• The largest threat to freedom, democracy, the market economy and prosperity, is no longer socialism. It is, instead, the ambitious, arrogant, unscrupulous ideology of environmentalism.

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