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This is why we have always fought. We are willing to mix with one another, but we do not want to become peoples of mixed race.
– Hungarian Prime Minister Viktor Orban
Found on CNN 2 years ago
The situation is that today we are sitting in a car with flat tires on all four wheels, it is quite obvious that the war cannot be won this way. Ukrainians will never win a war against Russia with American training officers and weapons.
– Hungarian Prime Minister Viktor Orban
Found on FOX News 2 years ago
We cannot allow Brussels bureaucrats to have poor people and poor countries to pay the costs of the fight against climate change.
– Hungarian Prime Minister Viktor Orban
Found on Reuters 5 years ago
We cannot allow Brussels bureaucrats to have poor people and poor countries to pay the costs of the fight against climate change, we must receive clear financial guarantees and we will negotiate the terms of that.
– Hungarian Prime Minister Viktor Orban
Found on Reuters 5 years ago
If Turkey chooses the latter, these people will arrive at Hungarys southern border in huge masses.
– Hungarian Prime Minister Viktor Orban
Found on FOX News 5 years ago
If you take masses of non-registered immigrants from the Middle East into your country, you are importing terrorism, crime, anti-Semitism, and homophobia.
– Hungarian Prime Minister Viktor Orban
Found on FOX News 7 years ago
[In Hungary] there are no ghettos and no no-go areas, no scenes like New Year's Eve in Cologne. The images from Cologne have deeply moved us Hungarians, i have four daughters. I can not help my children grow up in a world where something like Cologne can happen.
– Hungarian Prime Minister Viktor Orban
Found on FOX News 7 years ago
Brussels must hear the voice of the people, this is the biggest lesson from this decision.
– Hungarian Prime Minister Viktor Orban
Found on Reuters 8 years ago
Brussels' stance against Poland is not just ... they should give more respect to the Poles, brussels will never win this battle against the Poles.
– Hungarian Prime Minister Viktor Orban
Found on Reuters 8 years ago
The target of the ... bombings was Europe, not Brussels, so Hungary has to consider itself under attack even though luckily it happened outside Hungarian territory.
– Hungarian Prime Minister Viktor Orban
Found on Reuters 8 years ago
I think that in the middle of this year there will be no opportunity to extend sanctions automatically, more and more countries... are starting to realize that we need to cooperate.
– Hungarian Prime Minister Viktor Orban
Found on Reuters 9 years ago
We have lost our media, the right-wing media that helped the supporters of Fidesz, there is a conflict between the government and the owners of the dominant right-wing media. That is the truth.
– Hungarian Prime Minister Viktor Orban
Found on Reuters 9 years ago
South Stream was blocked, and now it needs a reasonable argument at least why South Stream is bad and Nord Stream is acceptable.
– Hungarian Prime Minister Viktor Orban
Found on Reuters 9 years ago
Organizing an Olympic Games would be the pinnacle of this historical process. We are not only competing for ourselves, but representing the whole region.
– Hungarian Prime Minister Viktor Orban
Found on Reuters 9 years ago
Selecting Budapest would not only be a new city and country for the Olympic Games, but put the region on the map. We want to organize the first Central Eastern Europe Olympics.
– Hungarian Prime Minister Viktor Orban
Found on Reuters 9 years ago
Hosting the Olympics games is no longer the privilege of the world’s 20 biggest cities -- we are ready to seize the opportunity, the Olympics is a passion for Hungarians.
– Hungarian Prime Minister Viktor Orban
Found on Reuters 9 years ago
2024 will be 35 years after we shook off the shackles of oppression and celebrated our freedom, organizing an Olympic Games would be the pinnacle of this historical process. We are not only competing for ourselves, but representing the whole region.
– Hungarian Prime Minister Viktor Orban
Found on Reuters 9 years ago
The pressure will be intense on us and the other Visegrad Four countries (Poland, Slovakia and the Czech Republic), they will portend that once the agreement is made by certain parties - and to avoid diplomatic complications I will not tell you which country Berlin is in - we should not only bring these people to Europe but divide them amongst ourselves, as an obligation.
– Hungarian Prime Minister Viktor Orban
Found on Reuters 9 years ago
The issue (of resettlement) will be a hot potato in the coming period because even though this could be kept in a semi-secret state... someone somewhere - I think in Berlin this week - will announce that 4-500,000 Syrian refugees could be brought straight from Turkey to the EU, this nasty surprise still awaits Europeans.
– Hungarian Prime Minister Viktor Orban
Found on Reuters 9 years ago
It is Hungary's basic interest to operate, sustain and potentially expand the nuclear power plant, or else the price of electricity will skyrocket. Paks equals cheap electricity, so the Hungarian government will execute the investment.
– Hungarian Prime Minister Viktor Orban
Found on Reuters 9 years ago
This destabilizes European democracies, we need to start the debate about the future of our continent honestly, without the muzzle of' political correctness', without pretence, talking straight.
– Hungarian Prime Minister Viktor Orban
Found on Reuters 9 years ago
It's a historical fact that Hungary must live with a few hundred thousand Roma, we can't ask anybody else to live with a large number of Roma.
– Hungarian Prime Minister Viktor Orban
Found on Reuters 9 years ago
Many criticize Hungary but can't deliver any solutions themselves.
– Hungarian Prime Minister Viktor Orban
Found on Reuters 9 years ago
Our borders are under threat, our life based on a respect for laws...and the whole of Europe. We are being run over.
– Hungarian Prime Minister Viktor Orban
Found on Reuters 9 years ago
They occupied a railway station, they refused to be fingerprinted, they did not cooperate and they refused to enter facilities where they could receive care, such as food, water, shelter or medical treatment. They have rebelled against Hungarian law.
– Hungarian Prime Minister Viktor Orban
Found on CNN 9 years ago
I would like to thank the Hungarian police because in recent days there has been a de facto rebellion among illegal migrants, they occupied a railway station, they refused to be fingerprinted, they did not cooperate and they refused to enter facilities where they could receive care, such as food, water, shelter or medical treatment. They have rebelled against Hungarian law.
– Hungarian Prime Minister Viktor Orban
Found on CNN 9 years ago
There should be a quick decision to create a legal basis and deploy European forces to the border of Greece to enforce European law instead of the Greek authorities.
– Hungarian Prime Minister Viktor Orban
Found on Reuters 9 years ago
From the 15th, Hungarian authorities cannot be forgiving of illegal border-crossing.
– Hungarian Prime Minister Viktor Orban
Found on Reuters 9 years ago
Considering that we are facing a rebellion by illegal migrants, police have done their job in a remarkable way, without using force, they have seized railway stations, refused to give fingerprints, failed to cooperate, and are unwilling to go to places where they would get food, water, accommodation and medical care ... They have rebelled against Hungarian legal order.
– Hungarian Prime Minister Viktor Orban
Found on Reuters 9 years ago
All of them would like to go to Germany; our job is only to register them.
– Hungarian Prime Minister Viktor Orban
Found on CNN 9 years ago
All of a sudden we will see that we are in minority in our own continent.
– Hungarian Prime Minister Viktor Orban
Found on Reuters 9 years ago
Now we talk about hundreds of thousands but next year we will talk about millions and there is no end to this.
– Hungarian Prime Minister Viktor Orban
Found on Reuters 9 years ago
The reality is that Europe is threatened by a mass inflow of people, many tens of millions of people could come to Europe, now we talk about hundreds of thousands but next year we will talk about millions and there is no end to this.
– Hungarian Prime Minister Viktor Orban
Found on Reuters 9 years ago
We Hungarians are full of fear, people in Europe are full of fear because they see that the European leaders ... are not able to control the situation.
– Hungarian Prime Minister Viktor Orban
Found on Reuters 9 years ago
If we would create ... an impression that 'just come because we are ready to accept everybody', that would be a moral failure. The moral, human thing is to make clear: Please don't come, turkey is a safe country. Stay there. It's risky to come. It's better for the family, for the kids, for yourself to stay.
– Hungarian Prime Minister Viktor Orban
Found on Reuters 9 years ago
We don't want to, and I think we have a right to decide that we do not want a large number of Muslim people in our country, we do not like the consequences of having a large number of Muslim communities that we see in other countries and I do not see any reason for anyone else to force us to create ways of living together in Hungary that we do not want to see. That is a historical experience for us.
– Hungarian Prime Minister Viktor Orban
Found on Reuters 9 years ago
Hungary did everything to fulfil regulations, don't criticise Hungary for doing what is compulsory.
– Hungarian Prime Minister Viktor Orban
Found on Reuters 9 years ago
Don't criticize Hungary for what is being done. Let Hungary do the job as it is written in the European regulations.
– Hungarian Prime Minister Viktor Orban
Found on CNN 9 years ago
Turkey is a safe country, why don't you stay there?
– Hungarian Prime Minister Viktor Orban
Found on CNN 9 years ago
All of them would like to go to Germany, our job is to only register them.
– Hungarian Prime Minister Viktor Orban
Found on CNN 9 years ago
We regard the whole fence issue as one of guarding borders.
– Hungarian Prime Minister Viktor Orban
Found on Reuters 9 years ago
This rift in the EU is very deep, of strategic nature.
– Hungarian Prime Minister Viktor Orban
Found on Reuters 10 years ago
We are convinced that locking Russia out of Europe is not rational, whoever thinks that Europe can be competitive, 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.
– Hungarian Prime Minister Viktor Orban
Found on Reuters 10 years ago
Hungary will not become a target destination for immigrants, we will not allow it, at least as long as I am prime minister and as long as this government is in power.
– Hungarian Prime Minister Viktor Orban
Found on Reuters 10 years ago
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