“We will not import crime, terrorism, homophobia, and a brand of anti-Semitism that sets synagogues ablaze.”
― Viktor Orban
“Hungary does not need a single migrant for the economy to work or the population to sustain itself or for the country to have a future.”
― Viktor Orban
“Hungary is against the export of democracy and opposes migration.”
― Viktor Orban
“Do you agree that the European Union should be able to prescribe the mandatory settlement of non-Hungarian citizens in Hungary without the consent of parliament?”
― Viktor Orban
“If your budget is in good shape and you are not indebted too much, you can do what the U.S. did at the beginning of the ’30s – building railways, etc., but when you don’t have that, you must be far more cautious.”
― Viktor Orban
“All things considered, defending our borders by building a fence to keep out people is a necessity. There is no more humane alternative when it comes to protecting ourselves. We must act humanely, within the law, while honoring transparency, but with firm resolve.”
― Viktor Orban
“Xenophobia is dangerous, but patriotism is a good thing.”
― Viktor Orban
“If somebody takes masses of non-registered immigrants from the Middle East into a country, this also means importing terrorism, criminalism, anti-Semitism, and homophobia.”
― Viktor Orban
“Hungary has no raw materials and no major energy sources; we have some agricultural background. So what we produce here in Hungary is the result of our labor and minds, and then we have to sell it to the world. If we are not able to do that, if we are not innovative enough, if we are not modern and open enough, we can’t do that.”
― Viktor Orban
“The best migrant is the migrant who does not come.”
― Viktor Orban
“In Hungary, if homosexuals would like to live together, they can do so under the civil code. But what we call marriage is exclusively for one man and one woman. We are a Christian country. That’s a historical fact.”
― Viktor Orban
“Whoever thinks… that the European economy can be competitive without economic cooperation with Russia, whoever thinks that energy security can exist in Europe without the energy that comes from Russia, is chasing ghosts.”
― Viktor Orban
“These activists who support immigrants inadvertently become part of this international human-smuggling network.”
― Viktor Orban
“Europe and European identity is rooted in Christianity.”
― Viktor Orban
“The euro must be defended, or uncertainty about the European Union will be widespread.”
― Viktor Orban
“It is not in our interest to sign economic policy agreements with the IMF, as that unnecessarily limits the room to manoeuvre of… the Hungarian government, Hungarian parliament and lawmakers.”
― Viktor Orban
“The future or the past – It’s very simple: building the future, or a restoration of post-communism.”
― Viktor Orban
“We think that without cooperation with the Russians, we cannot achieve our goals.”
― Viktor Orban
“The leaders of Europe always seem to emerge from the same elite, the same general frame of mind, the same schools, and the same institutions that rear generation after generation of politicians to this day. They take turns implementing the same policies.”
― Viktor Orban
“Many people in Hungary acted shamefully during World War II.”
― Viktor Orban
“My lesson from history is that if there is a strong moderate centrist party which can lead the country, there is no room for extremists from the right or left.”
― Viktor Orban
“Turkey is a safe country. Stay there.”
― Viktor Orban
“Movement of people is taking place on an immense scale, and from a European perspective, the number of potential future immigrants seems limitless.”
― Viktor Orban
“Is it not worrying in itself that European Christianity is now barely able to keep Europe Christian? If we lose sight of this, the idea of Europe could become a minority interest in its own continent.”
― Viktor Orban
“An important notion in Indian political thought that is of great value to Hungary is the idea of peaceful development.”
― Viktor Orban
“As the world undergoes a major transformation, it’s the time of significant opportunity and also threat.”
― Viktor Orban
“We have promised to support India in its international aspiration. We have agreed to set up a working group on technology.”
― Viktor Orban
“We are looking for rebuilding Hungarian defence Industry with India’s participation.”
― Viktor Orban
“We cannot let Brussels put itself above the law.”
― Viktor Orban
“We are not communists.”
― Viktor Orban
“We don’t go against the will of the people.”
― Viktor Orban
“Kadar died as a mass killer, and the Hungarian nation can’t forget that.”
― Viktor Orban
“Fidesz’s different air and its own culture must be preserved.”
― Viktor Orban
“We must set up large refugee camps outside the E.U. with armed security and financial support provided by the Union.”
― Viktor Orban
“Life is not easy in politics.”
― Viktor Orban
“When everything is going well, the role of the state in the economy should be limited. When we are in a crisis, it’s different.”
― Viktor Orban
“Europe can’t take in huge masses of foreign people in an unlimited, uncontrolled manner.”
― Viktor Orban
“There is a clear link between illegal migrants coming to Europe and the spread of terrorism.”
― Viktor Orban
“We would like to preserve Europe for Europeans.”
― Viktor Orban
“Donald Trump has made it clear that he regards Hungary highly.”
― Viktor Orban
“We would like to make it quite clear that we are not migrants into the U.K. But we are the citizens of a state that belongs to the European Union who can take jobs anywhere freely within the European Union.”
― Viktor Orban
“We do not want to go to the U.K. and take something from them. We do not want to be parasites. We want to work there, and I think that Hungarians are working well.”
― Viktor Orban
“According to our estimates, the Hungarians working in the U.K. altogether pay more contributions and taxes than the benefits that they get. So we belong to the world of the fair working people.”
― Viktor Orban
“All the terrorists are basically migrants.”
― Viktor Orban
“If you allow thousands or millions of unidentified persons into your house, the risk of… terrorism will significantly increase.”
― Viktor Orban
“We must not stop speaking the truth to the radical parties because voters will follow those who speak the truth, and European politics will grow more radical, which is in nobody’s interest.”
― Viktor Orban
“The Southern borders of Bavaria are being protected by Hungary.”
― Viktor Orban
“We’d accept Germany either allowing all migrants in or not allowing any in. But whatever Germany decides should only apply to Germany.”
― Viktor Orban
“We should involve the whole world in the handling of this refugee crisis.”
― Viktor Orban
“Irresponsibility is the mark of every European politician who holds out the promise of a better life to immigrants and encourages them to leave everything behind and risk their lives in setting out for Europe.”
― Viktor Orban
“If Europe does not return to the path of common sense, it will find itself laid low in a battle for its fate.”
― Viktor Orban
“Hungarian communists were the most talented. They convinced everybody that reforming the communist party was better than making a new party.”
― Viktor Orban
“The most important thing is to defend the euro.”
― Viktor Orban
“The strongest institution in the hands of the European Union is the euro.”
― Viktor Orban
“We need to fight to prove to people that it is possible to form an E.U. migration policy that is in line with the Hungarian national interest.”
― Viktor Orban
“Europe is a community of half a billion people, more than Russia and the United States combined.”
― Viktor Orban
“Europe has the technology, the strategic and economic might to defend itself.”
― Viktor Orban
“The migration wave can be stopped.”
― Viktor Orban
“We must make it clear that our problem is not in Mecca but in Brussels.”
― Viktor Orban
“We would be able to deal with Islam if we were allowed to deal with it in the way we think we should.”
― Viktor Orban
“The obstacle for us is not Islam, but the bureaucrats in Brussels.”
― Viktor Orban
“I belong to Helmut Kohl’s political pupils.”
― Viktor Orban
“President Erdogan has been my personal friend for a long time.”
― Viktor Orban
“It is our historical experience, that Hungary can only live in wealth and safety if Berlin, Moscow, and Ankara are on our side and also interested in our success – even if we do not always agree on certain questions.”
― Viktor Orban
“Concerning Poland, I can only say that the peoples of Central Europe and Hungary are a community in fate, to the death. Many of us would spill our blood for Poland any time. And vice versa: in an emergency, many Polish people would give his life to protect Hungarians. This has happened more than once over the course of history.”
― Viktor Orban
“There are so many problems in the E.U. that several countries are warming up to the idea that after the single currency, a deeper integration could also be created.”
― Viktor Orban
“The death penalty question should be put on the agenda in Hungary.”
― Viktor Orban
“Hungary will stop at nothing when it comes to protecting its citizens.”
― Viktor Orban
“To be clear and unequivocal, I can say that Islamisation is constitutionally banned in Hungary.”
― Viktor Orban
“Liberal democratic states can’t remain globally competitive.”
― Viktor Orban
“I don’t think that our European Union membership precludes us from building an illiberal new state based on national foundations.”
― Viktor Orban
“The point of the future is that anything can happen.”
― Viktor Orban
“On the taxing of banks, we have to find the level at which they squeal but still pay and open up the next day.”
― Viktor Orban
“Brussels’ stance against Poland is not just… they should give more respect to the Poles.”
― Viktor Orban
“The Hungarian people voted for NATO membership. We are active in the joint actions of NATO.”
― Viktor Orban
“Hungary was the only Central European country that was not able to create a new constitution after the collapse of the communist regime.”
― Viktor Orban
“Life starts at conception and must be protected from the first moment.”
― Viktor Orban
“Boxing is a noble sport.”
― Viktor Orban
“It would be a sad story to get rid of religious belief, national identity, family, and even sexual identity. That’s not freedom.”
― Viktor Orban
“Values are more important than money.”
― Viktor Orban
“When a crowd rushes into your house without declaring its intention, it is, by definition, an invasion.”
― Viktor Orban
“What sort of Europe do we want to have? Parallel societies? Muslim communities living together with the Christian community?”
― Viktor Orban
“Take seriously the traditions, the Christian roots, and all the values that are the basis of the civilisation of Europe.”
― Viktor Orban
“Europe can be saved.”
― Viktor Orban
“We interpret our agreement with the IMF – our participation in the IMF’s system of cooperation – as a borrowing agreement. The IMF sees it as an economic policy agreement. This is not in our interest.”
― Viktor Orban
“The Hungarian interest is that, if necessary, we should make loan agreements with the IMF on a regular basis.”
― Viktor Orban
“We are protecting Europe according to European rules that say borders can be crossed only in certain areas in a controlled way and after registration.”
― Viktor Orban
“If Europe’s outer border is not blocked off, it makes no sense to speak of quotas.”
― Viktor Orban
“When we have sealed the outer border and thus stopped the illegal migration, we can talk about any solution.”
― Viktor Orban
“Extremism is always potentially dangerous, but in Hungary’s political reality, Jobbik and the other far-right parties have no chance of having a major influence.”
― Viktor Orban
“With a successful center-right party such as ours, it is hard for the radical right to find room to operate. This is why they repeatedly attack us in the ugliest manner. They attack us more than they attack the Jewish community or the ‘Jewish conspiracy’ – which they believe exists. I am one of their main targets.”
― Viktor Orban
“The Hungarians, by nature, are not extreme. They become more extreme only when they are forced to fight for their freedom, as was in the case in the uprising against the communists in 1956 or the revolution against the Austrian Empire. They will not turn extreme in the name of despotism.”
― Viktor Orban
“The foreign policy of the Democrats is bad for Europe and deadly for Hungary. In contrast, the foreign policy of the Republicans and proclaimed by presidential candidate Trump is good for Europe and means life for Hungary.”
― Viktor Orban
“We must first and foremost defend Hungary’s independence and sovereignty, and, if needed, we must regain it.”
― Viktor Orban
“’I can’t get no satisfaction,’ in political terms, has haunted Hungarian politics for 20 years.”
― Viktor Orban
“We must defend what we have achieved so far.”
― Viktor Orban
“We can set it as a goal that taxes on labor would be even lower in Hungary… that we will have the cheapest energy in Europe, and that all those who want to work would have a job.”
― Viktor Orban
“We are convinced that locking Russia out of Europe is not rational.”
― Viktor Orban
“Hungary needs Russia.”
― Viktor Orban
“Hungary has a moral debt to the Jews that it helped send to death camps thirty years after the First World War.”
― Viktor Orban
“We have to abandon liberal methods and principles of organizing a society.”
― Viktor Orban
“Selecting Budapest would not only be a new city and country for the Olympic Games, but put the region on the map. We want to organise the first Central Eastern Europe Olympics.”
― Viktor Orban
“What is the basic principle of democracy? In the end, it is loyalty to the nation. We Central Europeans know from historical experience that sooner or later, we will lose our freedom if we do not represent the interests of our citizens.”
― Viktor Orban
“If you want to decide the question of migration without asking your citizens against the will of the people, you are fighting a losing battle.”
― Viktor Orban
“A country that does not fulfill its tasks in protecting the external borders has to cope with the consequences.”
― Viktor Orban
“The Democrats’ foreign policy is bad for Europe and deadly for Hungary. The migration and foreign policy advocated by the Republican candidate, Mr. Trump, is good for Europe and vital for Hungary.”
― Viktor Orban
“A European army must protect the continent from two sides, from the east and from the south, in terms of protecting against terrorism and migration.”
― Viktor Orban
“I think that with Donald Trump, the United States will have a president who is not ideologically limited; that is, he is an open person, much more interested in success, efficiency, and results than political theories.”
― Viktor Orban
“Protecting a border is not a nice thing. It is not a matter of aesthetics; it cannot be done with flowers and teddy bears.”
― Viktor Orban
“The main threat to the future of Europe is not those who want to come here to live but our own political, economic, and intellectual elites bent on transforming Europe against the clear will of the European people.”
― Viktor Orban
“If the world sees that we can defend our borders… then no one will try to come to Hungary illegally.”
― Viktor Orban
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