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.More Vaclav Klaus quotes [08/05/2011 11:08:53]

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 of their citizens, but only one State will remain. Basic things will be decided by a remote 'federal government' in Brussels and, for example, Czech citizens will be only a tiny particle whose voice and influence will be almost zero. ... We are against a European superstate.More Vaclav Klaus quotes [03/29/2018 05:03:36]

You cannot have democratic accountability in anything bigger than a nation state.More Vaclav Klaus quotes [03/29/2018 05:03:36]

I never intended to be a politician or office-seeker.More Vaclav Klaus quotes [03/29/2018 05:03:36]

Environmentalism is a dangerous ideology endangering human freedom.More Vaclav Klaus quotes [03/29/2018 05:03:36]