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.

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 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.

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.

Fear? What has a man to do with fear? Chance rules our lives, and the future is all unknown. Best live as we may, from day to day.

Cause and effect is the basis of my education, leading me to an essence far more profound than any rule of societal conditioning.

Life is not only merriment, It is desire and determination.

The virtue of a man ought to be measured not by his extraordinary exertions, but by his every-day conduct.

Heroes don't exist. And if they did, I wouldn't be one of them.

Climate deniers are less immoral than Holocaust deniers, although they are undoubtedly more dangerous.

As I've got older, and since I cut all my hair off, I've felt a bit more liberated about trying different things out.

A man is never drunk if he can lay on the floor without holding on.

I'm trying everything I can not to be jaded 'cause I don't like jaded musicians.

Show me why your regulation of culture is needed. Show me how it does good. And until you can show me both, keep your lawyers away.