Quotessence
Home / Quotes / Quote by Vaclav Klaus

Quote by Vaclav Klaus

“The message of [Fahernheit 9/11] is very weak and propagandistic ... We were used to such messages in the communist days. Everybody has open eyes and can understand that this is propaganda. It was a weak film that tells us nothing new.”

Quote by Vaclav Klaus

Author

Vaclav Klaus
Vaclav Klaus

Václav Klaus, born on June 19, 1941, is a former President of the Czech Republic. He has a strong academic background in economics and political science, serving as a professor of economics at the University of Economics in Prague. During his presidency, Klaus was committed to promoting economic reforms in the Czech Republic and the process of European integration. more

You May Also Like

“Bean-counting government bureaucrats are free to take race, ethnicity and gender into account when doling out public funds to non-white-male contractors. But God help law enforcement officers, air marshals and border agents who try to use those same factors to combat terrorism and protect American lives.”

“The U.S. intelligence community is palsied by lawyers. When we were going to capture Osama bin Laden, for example, the lawyers were more concerned with bin Laden's safety and his comfort than they were with the officers charged with capturing him. We had to build an ergonomically designed chair to put him in, special comfort in terms of how he was shackled into the chair. They even worried about what kind of tape to gag him with so it wouldn't irritate his beard. The lawyers are the bane of the intelligence community.”