Viktor Orban Quotes
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We have to abandon liberal methods and principles of organizing a society.
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As the world undergoes a major transformation, it's the time of significant opportunity and also threat.
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We are convinced that locking Russia out of Europe is not rational.
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It would be a sad story to get rid of religious belief, national identity, family, and even sexual identity. That's not freedom.
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I belong to Helmut Kohl's political pupils.
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Hungary needs Russia.
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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.
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Many people in Hungary acted shamefully during World War II.
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I don't think that our European Union membership precludes us from building an illiberal new state based on national foundations.
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We should involve the whole world in the handling of this refugee crisis.
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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?
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Values are more important than money.
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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.
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The euro must be defended, or uncertainty about the European Union will be widespread.
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We think that without cooperation with the Russians, we cannot achieve our goals.
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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.
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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.
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Hungary was the only Central European country that was not able to create a new constitution after the collapse of the communist regime.
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Europe can't take in huge masses of foreign people in an unlimited, uncontrolled manner.
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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.
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The best migrant is the migrant who does not come.
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The point of the future is that anything can happen.
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What sort of Europe do we want to have? Parallel societies? Muslim communities living together with the Christian community?
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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.