EMM News Explorer: Vaclav Havel

[-said]: Olga would be very glad if she knew how well her child is doing, how well it continues, how many good things have been done over the 20 years,

praguemonitor 28-JAN-10

[-said]: I have been a lifelong Praguer and I must say I am rather embarrassed about certain things,

ceskenoviny 22-JAN-10

[-said]: I am embarrassed about certain irreversible construction projects, a certain lack of conceptual development of the city and I am embarrassed about the situation at the City Hall,

ceskenoviny 22-JAN-10

[-said]: Prague should remember its history. Prague used to be an educational and cultural centre of Europe. It used to be a significant crossroads of various spiritual streams,

ceskenoviny 22-JAN-10

[-said]: We are not able to estimate when tsunami or earthquake strikes. More humbleness will probably contribute to the world´s better future,

ceskenoviny 21-JAN-10

[-wrote]: It is good that you deal with the climate in the Czech Republic,

praguemonitor 07-DEC-09

[-said]: Who else but you and your children should be its bearers,

praguemonitor 26-NOV-09

[-said]: It’s as if the parties did not understand that they are an instrument of politics, an irreplaceable, important instrument, but not an aim in itself; as if they did not know that their role is not to be a hidden manipulator of politics but to be very open, visible supplier of ideas and personalities; a place where the political debate is led, which gives birth to ideas,

TheSlovakSpectator 25-NOV-09

[-said]: The unification of the world means you cannot tell whether you are at an airport in Tokyo, in a shopping mall in Los Angeles or in a hotel in Prague,

TheSlovakSpectator 25-NOV-09

[ said]: I believe that it’s very good that this anniversary has become a real challenge to somehow reflect more deeply on who we are, what is coming, what we might want and where we failed in fulfilling previous expectations, and how we evaluate the past 20 years of freedom,

TheSlovakSpectator 25-NOV-09

[-said]: That means that politics is becoming something suspicious and I think that that’s not good at all,

TheSlovakSpectator 25-NOV-09

[-said]: We are walking on the right path, we haven’t given up the earlier ideals, but we are limping, it takes a long time and the way has weird curves and deviations,

TheSlovakSpectator 25-NOV-09

[-said]: Sooner or later the time will come for the children of these children to enter public life,

TheSlovakSpectator 20-NOV-09

[-said]: Today when one says that something has a political background, political circumstances, it almost sounds as if it were suspicious. This is not good. Politics should attract people, not to repulse them. This is in general interest,

praguemonitor 18-NOV-09

[-said]: velvet,

praguemonitor 18-NOV-09

[-said]: They followed up the work of freedom fighters from the previous decades,

praguemonitor 18-NOV-09

[-told]: We often tend to forget our fellow colleagues, friends, and the open-minded people in everyday life,

AP 17-NOV-09

[-said]: It may have ended in its classical way as we know it from the 20th century, but new, much more sophisticated ways of controlling the society are being born and we need to be cautious,

AP 17-NOV-09

[-said]: Many of our citizens who took part in the democratic changes died already with a feeling that they contributed to something that meant a lot,

cnn 17-NOV-09

[-told]: We often tend to forget our fellow colleagues, friends, and the open-m inded people in everyday life,

kuwaittimes 17-NOV-09

[ said]: The demonstration, the march set the history into motion,

AP 17-NOV-09

[ said]: The changes we commemorate today were undoubtedly aided by those who for long years tried to freely express themselves and testify to the real situation in our country,

irishtimes 17-NOV-09

[-recently warned]: 20 years ago we gained the essential thing: freedom.

kuwaittimes 17-NOV-09

[-said]: a loss of trust in politics, the gap between the public and the politicians.

kuwaittimes 17-NOV-09

[ says]: The U.S. indeed did not try to provoke any revolutions,

rferl 17-NOV-09

[-said]: to make decisions in twilight about what the visible state should do,

praguemonitor 16-NOV-09

[-said]: In 20 years, it (civic society) will be far more developed than today. The state will not be afraid but proud of it,

praguemonitor 16-NOV-09

[-said]: The era of dictatorships and totalitarian systems has not ended at all. It may have ended in a traditional form as we know it from the 20th century, but new, far more sophisticated ways of controlling society are being born. It requires alertness, carefulness, caution, study and a detached view,

praguemonitor 16-NOV-09

[-said]: We have not learnt a lesson, we are repeating mistakes that others overcame long time ago. We want to play the game but we are afraid to set rules of it,

praguemonitor 16-NOV-09

[-says]: It was clear that the atmosphere wouldn't last,

rferl 16-NOV-09

[-said]: There is quite a big difference between information and truth. The truth differs as it is not elusive... but someone guarantees it,

praguemonitor 16-NOV-09

[-noted]: I said 20 years ago (in the first presidential address) that our country is not thriving. I could not say this any longer. Our country is thriving bit sometimes in a rather strange way,

praguemonitor 16-NOV-09

[-said]: I would consider it positive if it (the opt-out) expired, respectively if it did no materialise at all,

ceskenoviny 15-NOV-09

[said:]: It may come into force, but it will cease to be valid later.

ceskenoviny 15-NOV-09

[-writes]: Milan you need to stay above it! There are worse things in one's life than being disgraced in the press,

praguemonitor 13-NOV-09

[-said]: The fact that I feel myself to be a European doesn’t mean that I stop being a Czech,

praguemonitor 11-NOV-09

[-said]: This may be for the first and last time in history that the two will sing together,

praguemonitor 11-NOV-09

[-said]: a text setting out the values and ideals to which the Union is attached, which it seeks to be in accord with, and which it bears in mind when taking its decisions,

praguemonitor 11-NOV-09

[-said]: It was such a historically important moment that various people had the impression that henceforth calm would reign and the world would simply flourish. That didn’t happen,

praguemonitor 11-NOV-09

[ said]: Seven million people went through the Communist party in Czechoslovakia. I don't think is is possible to exclude them permanently from public or state live forever,

ceskenoviny 11-NOV-09

[-said]: From time to time those countries cause it headaches of various kind,

praguemonitor 11-NOV-09

[-said]: We had to confront the consequences of the rule of fear that lasted for so many years, as well as all the dangers related to a redistribution of property without precedent in history,

praguemonitor 11-NOV-09

[said that:]: the integration process in Europe must continue

aktualne 11-NOV-09

[-said]: This way they would not feel they cannot be part of the European decision making processes,

aktualne 11-NOV-09

[-said]: I think it is a good choice in the given situation. If he had studied at the Soviet diplomatic school, it was probably because diplomacy could not be studied anywhere else,

ceskenoviny 11-NOV-09

[-said]: However, membership of the Communist party itself cannot be considered any crime,

ceskenoviny 11-NOV-09

[-said]: European sovereignty will gradually grow stronger in the future.

praguemonitor 11-NOV-09

[ said]: The debate about the Lisbon Treaty deals with the question in which relation the European and national sovereignties should co-exist. The answer is clear: they should complement each other. If I feel to be European, it doesn't mean I cease to be Czech,

aktualne 11-NOV-09

[-said]: Any alternative to the course of events to date would most likely have been much worse and more dangerous,

praguemonitor 11-NOV-09

[-tells]: What was clear, however -- and I've spoken or written about this before -- was that sooner or later a snowball would start rolling and turn into an avalanche,

rferl 05-NOV-09

[said:]: if the Americans have the feeling that we have been offended by their decision to scrap the radar plan, then I think this feeling is unsubstantiated. On the other hand, I would personally understand their possible wish to explain it in greater detail.

CH 22-OCT-09

rferl 21-OCT-09

[-said]: Probably it would be fair if Georgia were included too, though on the other hand it would probably be safer for Georgia, from the point of view of the future, to firmly anchor itself in the neighborhood -- with Azerbaijan, Armenia, and so on -- because they are its immediate neighbors and if there were any conflicts in the past then neighboring nations mostly played a role in them,

rferl 21-OCT-09

[-said]: We should apply the same standards to Russia that we apply to any country in the world, be it China or the Czech Republic or Uruguay,

rferl 21-OCT-09

[-said]: This dispute about whether we would allow an alliance radar to be located here or not, it struck me as very sad and it didn't reflect on us very well,

rferl 21-OCT-09

[ said]: I am very sorry about this, because it is hurting the name of the Czech Republic in Europe,

irishtimes 16-OCT-09

[-said]: (Parties) have become meta-structures of the state, half legal and half illegal, instead of being a nursery of talents and an environment where political personalities develop,

praguemonitor 16-OCT-09

[-said]: I am symbolically returning to the place where my public career in fact started,

praguemonitor 16-OCT-09

[-said]: I'm firmly convinced that the Lisbon Treaty will be ratified before the end of the year,

smh 15-OCT-09

[-said]: It's a belated and unconvincing argument and I regret it very much because it's damaging the name of the Czech Republic in Europe,

rferl 15-OCT-09

[-said]: This atmosphere told me clearly that it wouldn't be long now,

rferl 15-OCT-09

[-said]: I don't want to analyze Mr. president's reasons. I just state I consider it irresponsible (and) dangerous,

AP 15-OCT-09

[-said]: I consider this very irresponsible and dangerous,

smh 15-OCT-09

[-said]: Not to offer a president would mean a loss,

AP 15-OCT-09

[-said]: Such a threat does not exist, for various reasons,

AP 15-OCT-09

[-also expressed]: the icing on the cake of material growth.

praguemonitor 14-OCT-09

[-said]: I think that when, for example, the freshly awarded Nobel Peace Prize winner postpones a meeting with the Dalai Lama until after he visits continental China, he makes a small, inconspicuous, little-noticed compromise -- a compromise that has a certain logic,

rferl 14-OCT-09

[-said]: I hope that the dialogue across nations, professions and religions has a deep sense,

praguemonitor 12-OCT-09

[-said]: Memory rejects the bad, stressing what was fine,

praguemonitor 02-OCT-09

[ said]: I believed the party should be given a chance to be transformed, maybe like the Communist party in Poland,

praguemonitor 02-OCT-09

[-said]: We did not expect it to become such an opportunity for various frauds,

praguemonitor 02-OCT-09

[-said]: I guess it's a good idea. It is very good that it reminds the children, too, of what used to be here and how it looked like,

praguemonitor 02-OCT-09

[-said]: One can hardly find a time in our history in which Czech-German relations were as good as now,

praguemonitor 02-OCT-09

[-said]: I had no idea that the road will be so difficult and that it will last so long,

praguemonitor 02-OCT-09

[said:]: I have never been a determined fighter for the installation of the radar base here.

praguemonitor 01-OCT-09

[-said]: The basic objectives we sought have become reality,

praguemonitor 01-OCT-09

[-added]: I felt that a new chapter in the developments of Czech-German relations was opening,

CH 01-OCT-09

[-said]: However, all of this does not mean that there is not a tremendous number of things that trouble me. Everything has run in a much slower and difficult way than I hoped,

praguemonitor 01-OCT-09

[-said]: We are still suffering from the labour pains. Sometimes we make life difficult and complicated even for the West,

praguemonitor 01-OCT-09

[-said]: On the face of it, everything is democratic. There is parliament and parties,

praguemonitor 01-OCT-09

[-said]: In Russia, one can see something very similar. Three to four critical journalists have died under mysterious circumstances. The rest is uncritical,

praguemonitor 01-OCT-09

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