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Viktor Orbán
Prime Minister of Hungary
Mar 11, 2026
Exact date"We will never say yes to the effort to admit Ukraine to the European Union."
💡In an English government briefing, he rejected Ukraine’s accession to the European Union and proposed only a contractual framework of cooperation without membership.
Viktor Orbán
Prime Minister of Hungary
Mar 11, 2026
Exact date"No membership, no rights — just a contract."
💡In an English government briefing on Ukraine and the EU, he rejected full Ukrainian membership and proposed only a contractual model of cooperation without membership rights.
Viktor Orbán
Prime Minister of Hungary
Dec 31, 2025
Exact date"In 2026, I will ask for a mandate in the upcoming elections from members of the electorate in order for us to stay out of a European war. This is what I’ll seek their authorisation for. I’d like to ask them to confirm me, to authorise me to keep Hungary out of the European war alliance."
💡On the prime minister’s official website, he laid out an election goal of securing a mandate to keep Hungary out of a European war.
Viktor Orbán
Prime Minister of Hungary
Jun 16, 2025
Exact date"Russians had to be sent home"
💡Commemoration of June 16, 1989 and the anniversary of Imre Nagy's reburial.
Viktor Orbán
Prime Minister of Hungary
Jul 27, 2024
Exact date"That is why they want to stop him in his candidacy. That's why they want to put him in jail. That's why they want to destroy it."
💡Viktor Orban about Donald Trump in his speech at the 2024 Balvanyosi Summer Free University.
Viktor Orbán
Prime Minister of Hungary
Apr 25, 2024
Exact date"Hungary is an experimental laboratory against the progressive liberal virus."
💡Viktor Orban speech at the opening of the CPAC Hungary 2024 conference, where he called Hungary a laboratory against liberalism.
Viktor Orbán
Prime Minister of Hungary
Apr 25, 2024
Exact date"Progressive liberals sense the danger. The end of this era means their end."
💡Viktor Orban spoke at the CPAC Hungary conference about the end of the liberal era.
Viktor Orbán
Prime Minister of Hungary
Feb 29, 2024
Exact date"The migration must be stopped. If migrants have already entered a country, that country is no longer what it was before. It changes irreversibly."
💡Viktor Orban emphasized Hungarys hard stance on migration at a Hungarian government press conference.
Viktor Orbán
Prime Minister of Hungary
Jul 22, 2023
Exact date"Europe is destroying itself in Brussels. We choose life over the culture of death."
💡Orban traditional speech in Tusnadfurdoe (Baile Tusnad).
Viktor Orbán
Prime Minister of Hungary
Mar 15, 2023
Exact date"Liberals hate the nation, the family, and Christianity."
💡Orban during the March 15, 2023 celebrations.
Viktor Orbán
Prime Minister of Hungary
Mar 15, 2023
Exact date"Europe's biggest problem is the Gender lobby."
💡Orban at March 15 celebrations.
Viktor Orbán
Prime Minister of Hungary
Mar 15, 2023
Exact date"Brussels wants an empire, a United States of Europe. And we Hungarians want a sovereign country in which we decide how to live."
💡Viktor Orban festive speech on March 15 at the National Museum, in which he accused the EU of imperial ambitions.
Viktor Orbán
Prime Minister of Hungary
Jul 23, 2022
Exact date"We don't want to become a mixed-race people."
💡Orban 2022 Tusnadfurdoe speech where he warned against race mixing with non-Europeans, leading to the resignation of a longtime advisor who called it Nazi talk.
Viktor Orbán
Prime Minister of Hungary
Jul 23, 2022
Exact date"We Hungarians are not a people of mixed race, nor do we want to become one."
💡Viktor Orban stated at the 31st Balvanyosi Summer Free University that Hungarians do not want to become a mixed race. The speech sparked international outrage and one of his advisers resigned.
Viktor Orbán
Prime Minister of Hungary
Jul 23, 2022
Exact date"The West is in an intellectual crisis, and we are building the model of the future."
💡Speech in Baile Tusnad (Tusnadfuerdo).
Viktor Orbán
Prime Minister of Hungary
Jul 23, 2022
Exact date"The world has gone mad. We want to treat women as women and men as men."
💡Orban controversial speech at Tusnadfurdoe in 2022.
Viktor Orbán
Prime Minister of Hungary
Jul 23, 2022
Exact date"We are willing to mix with each other, but we don't want to become mixed race."
💡Viktor Orban speech at the Balvanyosi Summer Free University. The statement sparked international outrage and Jewish organizations condemned it.
Viktor Orbán
Prime Minister of Hungary
Jul 23, 2022
Exact date"We are not mixed race... and we don't want to be."
💡In a speech in Tusnadfurdo (Transylvania), the prime minister outlined his views on mixing European and non-European peoples, sparking major international outrage.
Viktor Orbán
Prime Minister of Hungary
Jul 27, 2019
Exact date"we are walking the path of economic self-destruction."
💡Tusnadfurdo; reflections on the EU, liberalism, and migration.
Viktor Orbán
Prime Minister of Hungary
Jul 27, 2019
Exact date"democracy yes, liberalism no."
💡Tusnadfurdo; reflections on the EU, liberalism, and migration.
Viktor Orbán
Prime Minister of Hungary
Jul 27, 2019
Exact date"and instead of migrants to European families"
💡Tusnadfurdo; reflections on the EU, liberalism, and migration.
Viktor Orbán
Prime Minister of Hungary
Jul 28, 2018
Exact date"we will need a European force"
💡Tusnadfurdo; geopolitics, EU elites, migration, and security.
Viktor Orbán
Prime Minister of Hungary
Jul 28, 2018
Exact date"Europe's leaders are incompetent."
💡Tusnadfurdo; geopolitics, EU elites, migration, and security.
Viktor Orbán
Prime Minister of Hungary
Jul 28, 2018
Exact date"the European elite declared bankruptcy"
💡Tusnadfurdo; geopolitics, EU elites, migration, and security.
Viktor Orbán
Prime Minister of Hungary
Jul 28, 2018
Exact date"We call it a series plan"
💡Tusnadfurdo; geopolitics, EU elites, migration, and security.
Viktor Orbán
Prime Minister of Hungary
Apr 8, 2018
Exact date"We protect Hungarian culture, the Hungarian language and Hungarian borders."
💡Orban victory speech after the 2018 parliamentary elections.
Viktor Orbán
Prime Minister of Hungary
October 2017
Month"György Soros is the enemy of the Hungarian people, the enemy of the European nations."
💡Orban campaign against George Soros, using antisemitic tropes about a Jewish billionaire controlling world events.
Viktor Orbán
Prime Minister of Hungary
Jul 22, 2017
Exact date"a red light should come on."
💡Tusnadfurdo; speech on the "strong state", identity, and integration.
Viktor Orbán
Prime Minister of Hungary
Jul 22, 2017
Exact date"it will not be integration, but chaos."
💡Tusnadfurdo; speech on the "strong state", identity, and integration.
Viktor Orbán
Prime Minister of Hungary
Jul 22, 2017
Exact date"we do not know of successful integration."
💡Tusnadfurdo; speech on the "strong state", identity, and integration.
Viktor Orbán
Prime Minister of Hungary
Jul 22, 2017
Exact date"There is no cultural identity without a stable ethnic composition."
💡Tusnadfurdo; speech on the "strong state", identity, and integration.
Viktor Orbán
Prime Minister of Hungary
Jul 23, 2016
Exact date"not in Mecca, but in Brussels"
💡Tusnádfürdő; security, migration and criticism of Brussels.
Viktor Orbán
Prime Minister of Hungary
Jul 23, 2016
Exact date"if you are Hungarian, you are European"
💡Tusnádfürdő; security, migration and criticism of Brussels.
Viktor Orbán
Prime Minister of Hungary
Jul 23, 2016
Exact date"Migration is killing us."
💡Tusnádfürdő; security, migration and criticism of Brussels.
Viktor Orbán
Prime Minister of Hungary
Jul 23, 2016
Exact date"We were, we are"
💡Tusnádfürdő; security, migration and criticism of Brussels.
Viktor Orbán
Prime Minister of Hungary
Sep 3, 2015
Exact date"Migrants are not refugees. It's an invasion."
💡During the 2015 refugee crisis, Orban characterized migration as an invasion rather than a humanitarian situation.
Viktor Orbán
Prime Minister of Hungary
Jul 25, 2015
Exact date"modern migration"
💡Tusnádfürdő; speech on migration ("modern migration of peoples") and European identity.
Viktor Orbán
Prime Minister of Hungary
Jul 25, 2015
Exact date"Europe would remain for Europeans."
💡Tusnádfürdő; speech on migration ("modern migration of peoples") and European identity.
Viktor Orbán
Prime Minister of Hungary
Jul 25, 2015
Exact date"for us, the stake is now Europe"
💡Tusnádfürdő; speech on migration ("modern migration of peoples") and European identity.
Viktor Orbán
Prime Minister of Hungary
Jul 26, 2014
Exact date"we are dealing with paid political activists"
💡Tusnádfürdő; programmatic speech on the "illiberal" state, civil sector and national strategy.
Viktor Orbán
Prime Minister of Hungary
Jul 26, 2014
Exact date"Against liberal democracy, we are building the illiberal state, the illiberal state."
💡Orban famous Tusnadfurdoe speech where he first articulated his vision of illiberal democracy as an alternative to Western liberal democracy.
Viktor Orbán
Prime Minister of Hungary
Jul 26, 2014
Exact date"Democracy is not liberal. Liberal is not democratic."
💡Orban famous speech about illiberal democracy in Tusnadfurdoe.
Viktor Orbán
Prime Minister of Hungary
Jul 26, 2014
Exact date"not a mere collection of individuals"
💡Tusnádfürdő; programmatic speech on the "illiberal" state, civil sector and national strategy.
Viktor Orbán
Prime Minister of Hungary
Jul 29, 2013
Exact date"Let's not be vulgar Marxists"
💡Tusnádfürdő; economic sovereignty and "national economic policy".
Viktor Orbán
Prime Minister of Hungary
Jul 29, 2013
Exact date"we started to pursue a national economic policy"
💡Tusnádfürdő; economic sovereignty and "national economic policy".
Viktor Orbán
Prime Minister of Hungary
Jul 29, 2013
Exact date"the dog stayed, only the chain was changed"
💡Tusnádfürdő; economic sovereignty and "national economic policy".
Viktor Orbán
Prime Minister of Hungary
Mar 15, 2012
Exact date"we will not be a colony!"
💡Budapest, Kossuth Square; speech for March 15 (national holiday).
Viktor Orbán
Prime Minister of Hungary
Mar 15, 2012
Exact date"We don't need a donkey driver"
💡Budapest, Kossuth Square; speech for March 15 (national holiday).
Viktor Orbán
Prime Minister of Hungary
Mar 15, 2012
Exact date"We write our own constitution."
💡Budapest, Kossuth Square; speech for March 15 (national holiday).
Viktor Orbán
Prime Minister of Hungary
Mar 15, 2012
Exact date"Glory to the brave!"
💡Budapest, Kossuth Square; speech for March 15 (national holiday).
Viktor Orbán
Prime Minister of Hungary
Jul 23, 2011
Exact date"the Hungarians want to fight"
💡Tusnádfürdő; "strong state" and national unity.
Viktor Orbán
Prime Minister of Hungary
Jul 23, 2011
Exact date"rotate around its own axis"
💡Tusnádfürdő; "strong state" and national unity.
Viktor Orbán
Prime Minister of Hungary
Jul 23, 2011
Exact date"we call it a two-thirds revolution"
💡Tusnádfürdő; "strong state" and national unity.
Viktor Orbán
Prime Minister of Hungary
Jul 23, 2011
Exact date"a strong nation stands behind it"
💡Tusnádfürdő; "strong state" and national unity.
Viktor Orbán
Prime Minister of Hungary
Jul 24, 2010
Exact date"in front of decent people"
💡Tusnádfürdő; economy, crisis and moral renewal.
Viktor Orbán
Prime Minister of Hungary
Jul 24, 2010
Exact date"go Hungary, go Hungarians!"
💡Tusnádfürdő; economy, crisis and moral renewal.
Viktor Orbán
Prime Minister of Hungary
Jul 24, 2010
Exact date"you have to believe in your own success"
💡Tusnádfürdő; economy, crisis and moral renewal.
Viktor Orbán
Prime Minister of Hungary
Jul 24, 2010
Exact date"it must be taken from there as well"
💡Tusnádfürdő; economy, crisis and moral renewal.
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In the same speech, Orbán said that they are willing to mix, but do not want to become a mixed race - a direct logical contradiction.
Viktor Orbán
"We Hungarians are not a people of mixed race, nor do we want to become one."
Viktor Orbán
"We are willing to mix with each other, but we don't want to become mixed race."
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