Top 117 Quotes & Sayings by Viktor Orban - Page 2

'I can't get no satisfaction,' in political terms, has haunted Hungarian politics for 20 years.

What sort of Europe do we want to have? Parallel societies? Muslim communities living together with the Christian community?

The death penalty question should be put on the agenda in Hungary.

Brussels' stance against Poland is not just... they should give more respect to the Poles.

The Hungarian interest is that, if necessary, we should make loan agreements with the IMF on a regular basis.

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.

Europe can be saved.

Protecting a border is not a nice thing. It is not a matter of aesthetics; it cannot be done with flowers and teddy bears.

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.

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.

If the world sees that we can defend our borders... then no one will try to come to Hungary illegally.

I don't think that our European Union membership precludes us from building an illiberal new state based on national foundations.

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.

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.

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.

We must defend what we have achieved so far.

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.

We are convinced that locking Russia out of Europe is not rational.

The point of the future is that anything can happen.

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.

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 would be able to deal with Islam if we were allowed to deal with it in the way we think we should.

A country that does not fulfill its tasks in protecting the external borders has to cope with the consequences.

The obstacle for us is not Islam, but the bureaucrats in Brussels.

We must make it clear that our problem is not in Mecca but in Brussels.

It would be a sad story to get rid of religious belief, national identity, family, and even sexual identity. That's not freedom.

The Hungarian people voted for NATO membership. We are active in the joint actions of NATO.

Hungary has a moral debt to the Jews that it helped send to death camps thirty years after the First World War.

Hungary is against the export of democracy and opposes migration.

The future or the past - It's very simple: building the future, or a restoration of post-communism.

We think that without cooperation with the Russians, we cannot achieve our goals.

Boxing is a noble sport.

President Erdogan has been my personal friend for a long time.

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.

These activists who support immigrants inadvertently become part of this international human-smuggling network.

Liberal democratic states can't remain globally competitive.

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.

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.

On the taxing of banks, we have to find the level at which they squeal but still pay and open up the next day.

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.

To be clear and unequivocal, I can say that Islamisation is constitutionally banned in Hungary.

When we have sealed the outer border and thus stopped the illegal migration, we can talk about any solution.

If Europe's outer border is not blocked off, it makes no sense to speak of quotas.

Hungary was the only Central European country that was not able to create a new constitution after the collapse of the communist regime.

Take seriously the traditions, the Christian roots, and all the values that are the basis of the civilisation of Europe.

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.

I belong to Helmut Kohl's political pupils.

Many people in Hungary acted shamefully during World War II.

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.

Life starts at conception and must be protected from the first moment.

Europe is slow to react, it is lagging behind in competitiveness, there are problems with demography, population, serious problems with security, internal security and military capabilities.

If you are not able to provide security for your own country, how can you guarantee liberties?

Everybody who comes to the EU as a migrant is basically coming illegally.

Liberty comes only after security.

I believe that the future for a more effective, more efficient way of approaching the challenges Europe is facing is going to be more properly and more effectively handled and seen through the member states.

The world has changed around Europe. It is not only the migration crisis that has shown Europe is not up for challenge.