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"I never intended to be a politician or office-seeker."
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"When we got into office, the thing that surprised me most was to find that things were just as bad as we'd been saying they were."
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"Martial arts just normally would not draw me to the box office."
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"I wanted a theory that would allow one to live outside the office with the same philosophy one uses inside it."
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"I was going to have cosmetic surgery until I noticed that the doctor's office was full of portraits by Picasso."
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"There are no favorites in my office. I treat them all with the same general inconsideration."
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"Know which officials are voted into office and which are appointed, and by whom."
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"He who uses the office he owes to the voters wrongfully and against them is a thief."
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"A bureaucrat is a Democrat who holds some office that a Republican wants."
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"I want to do exactly what I want to do. I'd rather gamble on the box office than beg for a grant."
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"It is easier to appear worthy of a position one does not hold, than of the office which one fills."
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"To pursue a so-called Third Way is foolish. We had our experience with this in the 1960s when we looked for a socialism with a human face. It did not work, and we must be explicit that we are not aiming for a more efficient version of a system that has failed."
Experience
"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."
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"By the time I returned to Czechoslovakia, I had an understanding of the principles of the market."
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"Privatization of the state-owned economy is not yet on the agenda. We cannot do it immediately; my colleagues would not agree to it. But we must put all forms of ownership on an equal footing immediately and let different types of ownership compete with the state firms."
Economy
"The events in the square, of course, made a deep impression on me and many other parents."
Impression
"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."
Change
"That means following a very restrictive fiscal and monetary policy which will squeeze the monopolies and cut their subsidies. On the micro level we will allow other economic agents, both domestic and foreign, to compete with them."
Policy
"We must have the time to create strict rules so that property is not sold by Communist managers for a low price. They often get payments under the table to sell to the first bidder. This does not build public support for a market economy."
Time
"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."
Art
"We will also allow state companies to sell shares to their workers and will pass a law allowing citizens to start companies of their own with no limits on the number of employees or on the firm's output."
Business
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