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.

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.

There are three types of lies -- lies, damn lies, and statistics.

Call no man happy, said Shadow, until he is dead

If I’m going down, I’m going down with lipstick on.

Everything will be okay in the end. If it's not okay, then it's not the end.

I have discovered the art of deceiving diplomats. I tell them the truth and they never believe me.

I guess funny people are attracted to funny people, and then you get comedy marriages.

The cramped monotony of my existence grinds me away by the grain.

You gave us power in our words, so I think before I speak, and that way when I speak, they know I'm here to teach.

Every work of art changes its predecessors.

Who wants to put together something that will bear some relationship to the vision or memory or experience or story or idea or dream or whatever.