Viktor Orban Quotes

Immigration is not just compatible with but is a necessary component of economic growth.

It is time we recognised the huge contribution that migration has made to the economic growth of this country.

Immigrants create an engine of economic prosperity.

Every country in Europe needs immigrants for its economic survival.

The United States is locked in a new arms race for that most precious resource - the future entrepreneurs upon whom economic growth depends. Substantial research shows that immigrants play a key role in American job creation.

That is now my mission: to provide a European vision of growth, employment, prosperity - in one word, our future.

As a conservative, I maintain a healthy skepticism of the theory of man-made global warming. I also believe that more people enjoying the fruits of modernity and economic development is a good thing - as long as those people arrived legally and obey the law.

We need the immigrants.

We must, by every reasonable means, import our people, not in one branch of industry, not merely as farmers, as tillers of the soil, but we must bring out of every kind of industry, must develop the minds of the people and their energies.

The states where the number of new immigrants were highest tended to benefit from the decades economic upswing.

Demography drives the economy.

Economic development is a great pacifying force.

My concern is that all these people never want to come back to France…. These people are the gold mine of our economy and for our society for the future.

With every increase in the power of production, consumption grew, and the labourer received larger returns for his labour, producing a tendency to immigration.

The most important import the United States has ever had has been human talent.

Indonesia is rich in natural resources. Indonesia is rich in manpower with its 103 million inhabitants - not like Malaysia with its 10 million.

It is not white nationalism to believe that countries like the United States would be better off with more babies. That belief can be held for racist reasons by racists, but it can also be held, reasonably and righteously, by people who worry about the economic consequences of demographic decline.

Australia's migrant communities have built the country. It has been one of the key pillars of Australia's prosperity over generations.

When it's well managed, migration works in the national interest, for our communities, economy and country.

'Make in India' is great, but 'Make It Happen in India' is even greater. Make It Happen in India is more than manufacturing. It's about training, about education, about societal development and automation and engineering.

Stabilizing economies and reducing political and civil strife are means to development and, as such, are part of the approach for promoting healthy populations.

The vast majority of immigrants - regardless of the conditions of war and poverty that may wrack their home countries - come and contribute to their new home country: building our roads, caring for our homes, children, and elders, and serving as doctors, lawyers, employers, and innovators.

Europe's demography is developing towards a smaller working population in an ageing society.

I think when you think about immigration, what we need to do is realize that that human capital, if put in a place to succeed, will literally sacrifice everything.

Hong Kong needs population growth to cope with a rapidly ageing population.