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.

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.

The demon that you can swallow gives you its power, and the greater life’s pain, the greater life’s reply.

Fpr years I thought we were on the same page... then I discovered we were NOT even in the same book...

To be irrelevant is to categorize your live into separate pursuit

I was taken by the power that savoring a simple cup of coffee can have to connect people and create community.

Populists love rich people. They just hate professionals.

There's no such thing as a bad photograph.

The most important thing about a fighter is something you can't see, and that's his heart.

Selfishness comes from poverty in the heart, from the belief that love is not abundant.

And it came to pass that in time the Great God Om spake unto Brutha, the Chosen One: "Psst!

When people think, Democrats win.