EU didn't advance our [Eastern Europe] democracy by a single millimeter.

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

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

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

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.

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

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

Environmentalism is a dangerous ideology endangering human freedom.

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.

I don't think there is any global warming. I don't see the statistical data for that.

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.

I'm on a roller coaster which only goes up my friend

Air is no less heavy because we do not detect its weight.

My father used to always give me a basketball, a skate board, and a bike every Christmas. That's all I wanted every year.

We know that enduring peace cannot be bought at the cost of other people's freedom.

I would love to study cultures and people.

When she reached the shallow end, Kingsley held out his hand and pulled her up, but she lost her step and fell into his arms, her body crushing momentarily against his.

I think our skin clears up and we're nicer when you are in love.

It's a hard life as a professional cricketer. It's not as easy as everyone makes out. To survive you need a tough hide.

Work done by human beings for human beings.

There is also a schedule to fashion - the deadline is always set. So maybe the fashion business is a good business for me in that way because I'm basically lazy, man.