Viktor Orban Quotes

It is the natural desire of each nation to use the other as an instrument of its own purposes and policies. By dint of our mutual dependence, your influence is amplified by our power. Our power is made more responsible and more effective by your influence.

I believe the U.S. already understands and will understand more and more that only a strong Russia will respond to the genuine interests of the United States.

No nation has friends only interests.

Today we will find most nations to be both our partners and our adversaries—sometimes simultaneously.

Europe has a set of primary interests which to us have none or a very remote relation, hence she must be engaged in frequent controversies, the causes of which are essentially foreign to our concerns. Hence, therefore, it must be unwise in us to implicate ourselves by artificial ties in the ordinary vicissitudes of her politics or the ordinary combinations and collisions of her friendships or enmities.

Why entangle our peace and prosperity in the toils of European ambition, rivalship, interest, humor, or caprice?

As a mature and responsible nation, one of India's foreign policy interests is to evolve a regional architecture based on the twin principles of shared security and shared prosperity.

You see, psychologically, Australia must understand it has to live in the region around it. Australia must find its security in Asia; it cannot find its security from Asia.

After the collapse of the Soviet Union, the United States and China are more likely to view each other as competitors if not adversaries. But the die has not been cast. The best possible outcome is a new understanding that when they cannot cooperate, they will coexist and allow all countries in the Pacific to grow and thrive.

Diplomacy is not an end in itself if it does not advance U.S. interests.

American presence is, you know, the major cause of balance of power and the stability in this region.

The White House isn't the place to learn how to deal with international crisis, the balance of power, war and peace, and the economic future of the next generation.

Our foreign policy needs to support our energy, economic, defense and domestic policies. It all falls within the arch of national interest. There will be windows of opportunity, but they will open and close quickly.

President Obama's consistent agenda has been to weaken the United States and our allies in pursuit of a more 'balanced' global power structure.

In these days of intimate relations, of economic stress and of intense desire to protect national interests and advance national opportunity, the treatment of questions which, from a legal standpoint, are domestic, often seriously affects international relations. The principle, each nation for itself to the full extent of its powers, is the principle of war, not of peace.

Very near the heart of all foreign affairs is the relationship between policy and military power.

I don't believe foreign policy is about altruism.

The management of a balance of power is a permanent undertaking, not an exertion that has a foreseeable end.

America has no permanent friends or enemies, only interests

The United States is too big and too important a country to have permanent enemies.

Foreign policy involves a good deal of domestic policy.

The United States has become geopolitically hobbled seemingly interested in grand strategic initiatives or transformative diplomacy, as its attention constantly dances from one crisis to another.

Even allies don’t share every single interest that you have. That’s a law of nature in the international system. They will tell you most of what you need to know but there may be some things that they don’t tell you that you need to know in order to formulate your policy as wisely as you can.

A new multipolar world has brought more uncertainty into international affairs.

We [Iran and the United States] have a common destiny in this region [The Middle East].