I never intended to be a politician or office-seeker. Vaclav Klaus Czechoslovakian Statesman More Vaclav Klaus Quotes 0
Nevertheless, there is another threat on the horizon. I see this threat in environmentalism which is becoming a new dominant ideology, if not a religion. Its main weapon is raising the alarm and predicting the human life endangering climate change based on man-made global warming. Vaclav Klaus Czechoslovakian Statesman More Vaclav Klaus Quotes 0
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 goal in different ways. Vaclav Klaus Czechoslovakian Statesman More Vaclav Klaus Quotes 0
That means following a very restrictive fiscal and monetary policy which will squeeze the monopolies and cut their subsidies. On the micro level we will allow other economic agents, both domestic and foreign, to compete with them. Vaclav Klaus Czechoslovakian Statesman More Vaclav Klaus Quotes 0
The events in the square, of course, made a deep impression on me and many other parents. Vaclav Klaus Czechoslovakian Statesman More Vaclav Klaus Quotes 0
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 regime took several months to crack down on dissidents. Vaclav Klaus Czechoslovakian Statesman More Vaclav Klaus Quotes 0
To pursue a so-called Third Way is foolish. We had our experience with this in the 1960s when we looked for a socialism with a human face. It did not work, and we must be explicit that we are not aiming for a more efficient version of a system that has failed. Vaclav Klaus Czechoslovakian Statesman More Vaclav Klaus Quotes 0
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 market really means. Vaclav Klaus Czechoslovakian Statesman More Vaclav Klaus Quotes 0
We must have the time to create strict rules so that property is not sold by Communist managers for a low price. They often get payments under the table to sell to the first bidder. This does not build public support for a market economy. Vaclav Klaus Czechoslovakian Statesman More Vaclav Klaus Quotes 0