QUOTE, UNQUOTE >
March 2004
Compiled by Anita Lišková

"He is like a computer, full of information, but he is unable to deduce any reasonable solution. Insert a coin and he starts hurling out the information."
- Tomáš Sokol, lawyer and former Minister of Interior, speaking about Miloslav Ransdorf, KSČM candidate for European parliament.

"The rising price of condoms is not so high, and sex is such an important motivation that I don't think there will be any decline in sales of this commodity."
- statement of Prime Minister Vladimír Špidla concerning the VAT increase for condoms.

"For me he is a genius; with him I felt like Ulrika with Goethe."
- air-hostess Klára Lohniská describing her relationship with Václav Klaus.

"He is just in the process of sweeping traces of Václav Havel away. Pretty absurd, since I did Klaus's bedroom."
- architect Bořek Šípek, connected with ex-president Václav Havel, commenting on the fact that the current president Václav Klaus is removing his works from the Prague Castle.