The Goldwater Institute has hosted several prominent politicians, journalists, and speakers, including New Jersey Governor Chris Christie, Czech Republic President Václav Klaus, and New York Times best-selling author Mark Steyn.
Descendant of his sister in law is the former President of the Czech Republik Václav Klaus.
Czech President Václav Klaus questioned the bid, doubting the ability to bring profit to the country.
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Senior politicians such as Václav Klaus, Declan Ganley, Jens-Peter Bonde or even Margaret Thatcher are considered proponents of this doctrine, and both Derk Jan Eppink and Jan Zahradil, two MEPs with the ECR group, have written extensively on the subject.
Guests from previous years have included, between others, Nicolas Sarkozy, Dmitri Medvedev, Hu Jintao, Jalal Talabani, Hamid Karzai, Vladimir Poutine, Mikheil Saakashvili, Abdoulaye Wade, Vaclav Klaus, Pervez Musharraf, Abdullah Gül, Boris Tadic, Viktor Yanukovych, Paul Kagamé, Herman Van Rompuy, José Manuel Barroso, Anders Fogh Rasmussen, etc.