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By the time I returned to Czechoslovakia, I had an understanding of the principles of the market.
~ Vaclav Klaus
By The Time
Had
Market
Principles
Returned
Time
Understanding
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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
Also
Civic
Expression
First
Forum
Government
Helped
Late
New
New Government
November
Principles
Public
Statement
Wanted
Write
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I never intended to be a politician or office-seeker.
~ Vaclav Klaus
Intended
Never
Politician
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I was paid to read Western economic texts. In a way, the regime paid for their own undermining.
~ Vaclav Klaus
Economic
Own
Paid
Read
Regime
Texts
Undermining
Way
Western
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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
Develop
Follow
Just
Makes
Measures
Process
Reform
Science
Sequence
Should
Strategy
Tells
You
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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
Alarm
Another
Based
Becoming
Change
Climate
Climate Change
Dominant
Environmentalism
Global
Global Warming
Horizon
Human
Human Life
I See
Ideology
Life
Main
Man-Made
Nevertheless
New
Predicting
Raising
Religion
See
Threat
Warming
Weapon
Which
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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
Arrested
Being
Bosses
Common
Common Goal
Different
Different Ways
Economic
Engaging
Goal
Like
Me
Open
Party
People
Pursuing
Ways
Were
Who
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Privatization of the state-owned economy is not yet on the agenda. We cannot do it immediately; my colleagues would not agree to it. But we must put all forms of ownership on an equal footing immediately and let different types of ownership compete with the state firms.
~ Vaclav Klaus
Agenda
Agree
Cannot
Colleagues
Compete
Different
Different Types
Economy
Equal
Footing
Forms
Immediately
Must
Ownership
Privatization
Put
State
Types
We Cannot
Would
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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
Agents
Allow
Both
Compete
Cut
Domestic
Economic
Fiscal
Following
Foreign
Level
Means
Micro
Monetary
Monetary Policy
Monopolies
Other
Policy
Squeeze
Subsidies
Them
Very
Which
Will
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The events in the square, of course, made a deep impression on me and many other parents.
~ Vaclav Klaus
Course
Deep
Events
Impression
Made
Many
Me
Other
Parents
Square
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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
August
Crack
Down
Had
Happened
Invasion
Months
New
New York
Regime
Several
Spent
Spring
Term
Then
Took
University
York
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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
1960s
Aiming
Did
Efficient
Experience
Explicit
Face
Failed
Foolish
Had
Human
Human Face
Looked
More
Must
Our
Pursue
So-Called
Socialism
System
Third
Version
Way
Work
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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
About
Economic
Economic System
Find
Having
Market
Means
Myself
Old
Planning
Really
Sometimes
System
Talk
Teach
Terms
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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
Build
Communist
Create
Does
Economy
First
Get
Low
Managers
Market
Market Economy
Must
Often
Payments
Price
Property
Public
Public Support
Rules
Sell
Sold
Strict
Support
Table
Time
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We served on the editorial board of a literary monthly called Face in 1968 and 1969. He was a young writer, and I was also interested in broad cultural issues. We agreed on all major issues and became friends.
~ Vaclav Klaus
Agreed
Also
Became
Board
Broad
Cultural
Cultural Issues
Editorial
Face
Friends
He
Interested
Issues
Literary
Major
Monthly
Served
Writer
Young
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We will also allow state companies to sell shares to their workers and will pass a law allowing citizens to start companies of their own with no limits on the number of employees or on the firm's output.
~ Vaclav Klaus
Allow
Allowing
Also
Citizens
Companies
Employees
Firm
Law
Limits
Number
Output
Own
Pass
Sell
Shares
Start
State
Will
Workers
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What we want is to establish the rules of a market economy - not to plan its outcome.
~ Vaclav Klaus
Economy
Establish
Market
Market Economy
Outcome
Plan
Rules
Want
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I do not consider the Lisbon Treaty to be a good thing for Europe, for the freedom of Europe, or for the Czech Republic.
~ Vaclav Klaus
A Good Thing
Consider
Czech
Czech Republic
Europe
Freedom
Good
Good Thing
Republic
Thing
Treaty
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I live in Europe and care about democracy and sovereignty of nation states there.
~ Vaclav Klaus
About
Care
Democracy
Europe
Live
Nation
Sovereignty
States
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I'm absolutely convinced that the very small global warming we are experiencing is the result of natural causes. It's a cyclical phenomenon in the history of the Earth. The role of man is very small, almost negligible.
~ Vaclav Klaus
Absolutely
Almost
Causes
Convinced
Cyclical
Earth
Experiencing
Global
Global Warming
History
Man
Natural
Phenomenon
Result
Role
Small
The History Of
Very
Warming
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