Words matter. These are the best Viktor Orban Quotes, and they’re great for sharing with your friends.
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.
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.
‘I can’t get no satisfaction,’ in political terms, has haunted Hungarian politics for 20 years.
Brussels’ stance against Poland is not just… they should give more respect to the Poles.
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.
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.
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.
We have promised to support India in its international aspiration. We have agreed to set up a working group on technology.
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.
A country that does not fulfill its tasks in protecting the external borders has to cope with the consequences.
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.
We don’t go against the will of the people.
Europe can be saved.
We cannot let Brussels put itself above the law.
The Southern borders of Bavaria are being protected by Hungary.
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.
Life is not easy in politics.
Movement of people is taking place on an immense scale, and from a European perspective, the number of potential future immigrants seems limitless.
We must defend what we have achieved so far.
The obstacle for us is not Islam, but the bureaucrats in Brussels.
Kadar died as a mass killer, and the Hungarian nation can’t forget that.
We must make it clear that our problem is not in Mecca but in Brussels.
We should involve the whole world in the handling of this refugee crisis.
The euro must be defended, or uncertainty about the European Union will be widespread.
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.
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.
Fidesz’s different air and its own culture must be preserved.
We cannot let Brussels put itself above the law.
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.
Xenophobia is dangerous, but patriotism is a good thing.
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.
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.
If Europe’s outer border is not blocked off, it makes no sense to speak of quotas.
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.
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.
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.
Donald Trump has made it clear that he regards Hungary highly.
We would be able to deal with Islam if we were allowed to deal with it in the way we think we should.
Boxing is a noble sport.
On the taxing of banks, we have to find the level at which they squeal but still pay and open up the next day.
As the world undergoes a major transformation, it’s the time of significant opportunity and also threat.
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.
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.
Many people in Hungary acted shamefully during World War II.
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.
Hungary was the only Central European country that was not able to create a new constitution after the collapse of the communist regime.
To be clear and unequivocal, I can say that Islamisation is constitutionally banned in Hungary.
These activists who support immigrants inadvertently become part of this international human-smuggling network.
Life starts at conception and must be protected from the first moment.
The migration wave can be stopped.
Hungarian communists were the most talented. They convinced everybody that reforming the communist party was better than making a new party.
Hungary will stop at nothing when it comes to protecting its citizens.
Hungary needs Russia.
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.
We will not import crime, terrorism, homophobia, and a brand of anti-Semitism that sets synagogues ablaze.
There is a clear link between illegal migrants coming to Europe and the spread of terrorism.
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.
Europe is a community of half a billion people, more than Russia and the United States combined.
It would be a sad story to get rid of religious belief, national identity, family, and even sexual identity. That’s not freedom.
We are not communists.
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.
We’d accept Germany either allowing all migrants in or not allowing any in. But whatever Germany decides should only apply to Germany.
Protecting a border is not a nice thing. It is not a matter of aesthetics; it cannot be done with flowers and teddy bears.
We are looking for rebuilding Hungarian defence Industry with India’s participation.
We think that without cooperation with the Russians, we cannot achieve our goals.
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.
Fidesz’s different air and its own culture must be preserved.
Europe has the technology, the strategic and economic might to defend itself.
All the terrorists are basically migrants.
We would like to preserve Europe for Europeans.
We are convinced that locking Russia out of Europe is not rational.
President Erdogan has been my personal friend for a long time.
I don’t think that our European Union membership precludes us from building an illiberal new state based on national foundations.
Hungary has a moral debt to the Jews that it helped send to death camps thirty years after the First World War.
The death penalty question should be put on the agenda in Hungary.
The point of the future is that anything can happen.
When a crowd rushes into your house without declaring its intention, it is, by definition, an invasion.
