Viktor Orban Quotes

With respect to Euro-Atlantic integration, we have to realize that we need to normalize the relationships with our neighbors, and especially with Russia.

Turkey can be a bridge to regimes and actions the United States can't reach. Turkey can talk to people the United States can't talk to.

I don’t talk to countries that exhibit bad behavior.

It’s not in our interest to drive the Russians into a beleaguered attitude where they have to prove what they can do.

If Russia and the United States approach each other in starkly adversarial terms, the conflict will badly warp the foreign policy of both countries ...

Anybody who says it is in America's interest to not have better relations with Russia doesn't know what they're talking about when it comes to geopolitics.

We have always argued that attempts to isolate Belarus, like other countries, lead to a dead end. In this situation, everyone loses.

Ever since Barack Obama had become president, the main policy of the U.S. government toward Russia had been one of appeasement.

Russia and China are very natural partners. We are neighbors with an immense common border.

Prospects of normalizing our relations with Russia look good.

The E.U. cannot act as guardian of the post-Cold War status quo without risking a collapse of Europe's current institutional infrastructure.

Both Bibi and Obama realize that they are going to have to face the problem of Iran together.

We have an interest in excellent relations because we are neighbours as Europeans with Russia. We are allies with the United States in the NATO framework.

For the Kremlin, it is more feasible to preserve its great-power status in cooperation with the United States than in confrontation.

I remain committed to a balanced policy, which will protect our national interests both on our eastern border - I mean with Russia - and of course with the European Union.

If I correctly understand the goal of American policy, one wishes Russia to be a partner.

And Israel, being a tiny, small country, of course has interest to strengthen - we have interest to strengthen our relations with other countries, mostly countries that were hostile for many, many years.

I believe a relationship with a country is simply bound to the interests of two countries and not by personal issues.

Iran is part of the problem, not the solution. And the Russian government is ignoring reality.

Well, that is very imperative to let North Korea open door to outside.

Many agree that the worst thing that could ever happen is if Russia and China get closer.

For the European Union, Russia is as important politically and economically as China is to the U.S.

Everyone in my country understands that Russia cannot do without Europe and that, vice versa, Europe cannot do without Russia. We depend on cooperation.

This fact lays on us - so long as the maintenance of good relations with Russia seems to us worth an effort - the duty of satisfying Russia that she has no need to fear any invasion of her sphere of interests on Germany's part.

Of course the United States and Russia have different interests. Nevertheless, both are strategic partners.