Václav Klaus quotes - page 2

Václav Klaus is a Czech economist and politician who served as the President of the Czech Republic. Known for his strong eurosceptic views, he played a key role in the country’s economic transformation after the fall of communism. He is recognized for his significant influence on Czech politics and public debate. Here are 35 of his quotes:

I live in Europe and care about democracy and sovereignty of nation states there. (Václav Klaus)
Those of us who lived under communism for most of our lives were looking toward the Western world because of its values, emphasis on democracy, individual liberties and freedom, and economic prosperity. View quote
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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 economy and prosperity at the beginning of the 21st century is not communism or its various softer variants. Communism was replaced by the threat of ambitious environmentalism. View quote
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What is concisely referred to as global warming, is a fatal mistake of the present time. View quote
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Common foreign policy is completely unnecessary. The various European countries have widely differing priorities, goals and prejudices. It would be wrong to force them all to follow the same course. View quote
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EU expansion is, unfortunately, continuing without a constitution, as a gradual process of standardization - and that's far more dangerous. It is very difficult to slow down this process, which is being pushed forward without significant public participation. View quote
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The attempts to command the climate and decide about the temperature on our planet are wrong and arrogant. I wrote a book about it which was published in English under the title "Blue Planet in Green Shackles.”. View quote
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Other top-level politicians do not express their global warming doubts because a whip of political correctness strangles their voice. View quote
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My main concern is the political dimension of European integration. This is one of the most important issues of all, as far as I'm concerned. It has to do with our past, with our sensitivity, perhaps even our hypersensitivity in this regard. View quote
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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 possibility to give adequate instructions to hundreds of millions of individuals and institutions and the resulting compliance or non-compliance of those who are supposed to follow these instructions. View quote
Václav Klaus

Václav Klaus

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Occupation: Czech Statesman
Born: June 19, 1941
Quotes count: 35
Wikipedia: Václav Klaus

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