67 Quotes by Vaclav Klaus

a political farce which the leftists are playing against the right.

it is such a delicate part of Czech history that it cannot be done without consensus on it in the Czech Republic.

It's an awful thing and I take it very seriously,

In my opinion, this gives Icelanders all the benefits ensuing from it, but they have no costs connected with EU membership,

I had been in Austria that day, giving lectures attacking government economic policy. You see, the regime already could not control its critics.

By no means can the hospitals work the way they used to work. If someone believes that they can, I think he or she is very wrong,

For the Czech Republic, EU entry was necessary for historical and geographical reasons. But I would almost say that to be a part of the economic side of European integration process is sufficient for Iceland,

Czech Republic is an important part of central Europe. It's clear that we must participate in European integration. I am convinced that the Czech Republic - or, in the past, Czechoslovakia - would have been one of the founding members of the EU if it hadn't been for the communist takeover in 1948.

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 human society. It is not about nature or scientific ecology; it is about environmentalism, about one - recently born - dirigistic and collectivistic ideology, which goes against freedom and free markets.