Quotes About Orbán

during the 8 years of his second term as prime minister, by supplying the unemployed with menial state-paid seasonal summer jobs designed by local government which took only a few hours a day, Orbán had lowered the unemployment rate from 11.4 to 3.8 per cent. This provided him with thousands of loyal supporters whose daily bread depended on his reelection.

The Ottomans were probably already casting guns at Edirne by this time; what Orban brought was the skill to construct the molds and control the critical variables on a far greater scale.

Chasing CEU out of Hungary marked the start of a new era for Orbán, said Liviu Matei, CEU's provost. "A line has been crossed. People are being forced out of the country. This is not restriction any more, this is repression. In Hungary, the reign of repression has been started."