Quotes from Viktor Orban

Hungarian communists were the most talented. They convinced everybody that reforming the communist party was better than making a new party.

We would like to preserve Europe for Europeans.

Fidesz's different air and its own culture must be preserved.

We must defend what we have achieved so far.

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.

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

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.

We have to abandon liberal methods and principles of organizing a society.

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

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.

We have promised to support India in its international aspiration. We have agreed to set up a working group on technology.

Hungary will stop at nothing when it comes to protecting its citizens.

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.

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

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.

If you allow thousands or millions of unidentified persons into your house, the risk of... terrorism will significantly increase.

There is a clear link between illegal migrants coming to Europe and the spread of terrorism.

All the terrorists are basically migrants.

I belong to Helmut Kohl's political pupils.

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.

We'd accept Germany either allowing all migrants in or not allowing any in. But whatever Germany decides should only apply to Germany.

Liberal democratic states can't remain globally competitive.

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

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