Viktor Orban Quotes

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Viktor Orban

Profession : Politician

Birth : May 31, 1963

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.

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

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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.

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

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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.

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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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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.

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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.

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Hungary is against the export of democracy and opposes migration.

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

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We must defend what we have achieved so far.

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

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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.

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

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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.

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Hungary needs Russia.

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Many people in Hungary acted shamefully during World War II.

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

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