Vaclav Klaus famous quotes

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 IPCC is not a scientific institution: it's a political body, a sort of non-government organization of green flavor. It's neither a forum of neutral scientists nor a balanced group of scientists. These people are politicized scientists who arrive there with a one-sided opinion and a one-sided assignment.
-- Vaclav Klaus

#Government #Organization #People

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.
-- Vaclav Klaus

#Book #Blue #Arrogant

You cannot have democratic accountability in anything bigger than a nation state.
-- Vaclav Klaus

#Accountability #Democracy #Bigger

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 you should follow and in what sequence.
-- Vaclav Klaus

#Art #Reform #Strategy

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.
-- Vaclav Klaus

#Zero #Government #Europe

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

#Party #Goal #People

I was paid to read Western economic texts. In a way, the regime paid for their own undermining.
-- Vaclav Klaus

#Way #Economic #Regimes

Environmentalism is a dangerous ideology endangering human freedom.
-- Vaclav Klaus

#Dangerous #Ideology #Humans

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 and can understand that this is propaganda. It was a weak film that tells us nothing new.
-- Vaclav Klaus

#Eye #Politics #Messages

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.
-- Vaclav Klaus

#Democracy #Ambitious #Arrogant

Communism was replaced by the threat of ambitious environmentalism.
-- Vaclav Klaus

#Ambitious #Communism #Threat

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

#New York #Spring #August

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 new government wanted to do.
-- Vaclav Klaus

#Writing #Government #Expression

By the time I returned to Czechoslovakia, I had an understanding of the principles of the market.
-- Vaclav Klaus

#Understanding #Principles

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.
-- Vaclav Klaus

#Believe #Men #Knowing

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 the ability of man to use the expanding wealth, science and technology for solving the actual pressing problems of mankind, especially of the developing countries.
-- Vaclav Klaus

#Country #Technology #Men

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 about 'saving the planet' is an effective way to show their 'caring' for humanity and that it is the easiest way to maximize votes irrespective of any relevant activity which would aim at the real needs of people. The global warming dogma has become a very easy form of escapism from the current reality.
-- Vaclav Klaus

#Real #Caring #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 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.
-- Vaclav Klaus

#Democracy #Ambitious #Global Warming

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.
-- Vaclav Klaus

#Temperature #Climate #Global Warming

"not a scientific body capable of accurately assessing the facts about global warming".
-- Vaclav Klaus

#Facts #Body #Global Warming

What is concisely referred to as global warming, is a fatal mistake of the present time.
-- Vaclav Klaus

#Mistake #Global Warming #Fatal Mistakes

Other top-level politicians do not express their global warming doubts because a whip of political correctness strangles their voice.
-- Vaclav Klaus

#Voice #Political #Doubt

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

#Mean #Planning #Sometimes

I never intended to be a politician or office-seeker.
-- Vaclav Klaus

#Office #Politician

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

#Men #Horizon #Weapons