Viktor Orban quotes

“Everybody who comes to the EU as a migrant is basically coming illegally.”
-- Viktor Orban

#Migrants Quotes

“Liberty comes only after security.”
-- Viktor Orban

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“I believe that the future for a more effective, more efficient way of approaching the challenges Europe is facing is going to be more properly and more effectively handled and seen through the member states.”
-- Viktor Orban

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“If you are not able to provide security for your own country, how can you guarantee liberties?”
-- Viktor Orban

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“The world has changed around Europe. It is not only the migration crisis that has shown Europe is not up for challenge.”
-- Viktor Orban

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“Europe is slow to react, it is lagging behind in competitiveness, there are problems with demography, population, serious problems with security, internal security and military capabilities.”
-- Viktor Orban

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“Isn't it a characteristic of the age we live in that it has made everyone in a way a migrant and a member of a minority?”

Source : Amin Maalouf (2001). “In the Name of Identity: Violence and the Need to Belong”, p.37, Arcade Publishing

“My mother was very involved with Cesar Chavez's work on behalf of the migrant farm workers in California.”

“Like a prisoner awaiting his release, like a schoolboy when the end of term is near, like a migrant bird ready to fly south ... I long to be gone.”

“Migrants and refugees are not pawns on the chessboard of humanity”

“It is virtually impossible to control Northern Kenya, which is populated chiefly by migrant nomads.”

“President Obama is committed to Hispanics and migrants.”

“You are more likely to be treated by a migrant in the NHS than you are to be behind them in the queue.”

“And a united Europe will also manage to send hundreds of thousands of migrants, who don't have the right to asylum, back to their homelands. Though that, given the number of flights necessary, would be of a scale reminiscent of the Berlin Airlift.”

“Both my parents were migrant workers who came to the U.K. in the Fifties to better themselves. The culture I grew up in was to work hard, save hard and to look after your family.”

“Given that the label "immigrant literature" is already established, unavoidable for anyone with a migrant background and used in any given context, I strongly advocate an absurd amount of specification to go along with the label.”