Quotes from Viktor Orban

Hungary is against the export of democracy and opposes migration.

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.

Turkey is a safe country. Stay there.

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.

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.

Hungary has no raw materials and no major energy sources; we have some agricultural background. So what we produce here in Hungary is the result of our labor and minds, and then we have to sell it to the world. If we are not able to do that, if we are not innovative enough, if we are not modern and open enough, we can't do that.

We must first and foremost defend Hungary's independence and sovereignty, and, if needed, we must regain it.

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.

The most important thing is to defend the euro.

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

The strongest institution in the hands of the European Union is the euro.

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

We must set up large refugee camps outside the E.U. with armed security and financial support provided by the Union.

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.

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?

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.

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

Boxing is a noble sport.

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

Europe can't take in huge masses of foreign people in an unlimited, uncontrolled manner.

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.

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

Europe has the technology, the strategic and economic might to defend itself.

Values are more important than money.