Friends of the Václav Havel Library

With the honours to consider as friends of the Václav Havel Library projects in the U.S. among others:

• Madeleine Albright, Secretary of State and Ambassador to the United Nations under President Clinton, Principal in the Albright Group, Diplomat
• Thomas Dine, CEO, Jewish Community Federation
• Vartan Gregorian, President of the Carnegie Corporation of New York
• Marcel Guarnizo, Reverend, EICEE, Schloss Neuwaldegg
• John Shattuck, CEO, John F. Kennedy Library Foundation
• Craig Stapleton, former US Ambassador to the Czech Republic, US Ambassador to France
• Jan Švejnar, Everett E. Berg Professor of Business Administration, Professor of Business Economics and Public Policy, University of Michigan

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Speech in Czech Parliament

„After all our identity does not consist of our talking about it and constantly shouting over the place that “we are Czechs, we’re the best”, but of our being capable of saying something original to others, of creating something that can attract others but is unlikely to originate elsewhere.“

Václav Havel:
Speech in Czech Parliament
March 12, 1996