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June 2003
Compiled by Anita Lišková
"Nobody seemed to be interested
in getting the luxury appartments in Nerudova street when the MPs
voted about it. I asked for it because I regretted that it remained
empty."
- chairman of the KSÈM parliamentary club, Pavel Kováèik, in regard
to his application for a flat.
"The politician wants to
show his patriotism, saying that he will use a Škoda car. But
he forgets to add that in reality it's a Volkswagen."
- Václav Havel's comment on Václav Klaus' declaration to buy Czech-made
cars for the presidential office.
"At the end we managed to
explain him that it's almost thirty kilometers, but the former
Minister of Health, Bohumil Fišer, and municipal deputy Václav
Božek were already looking for some running shoes."
- remarked chairman of the ÈSSD in Brno, Václav Grulich, after
Prime Minister Vladimír Špidla surprised him by asking if he could
run around the Brno dam.
"Television stations have
already run out into the streets to shoot the most pathetic little
monkey, sea lion or hippo, and now they will say that Klaus has
no sympathy for animals."
- Czech president Václav Klaus, describing the situation in the
media following his first veto on the law regulating zoos.
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