Viktor Orban Quotes

Validity was restored to the laws, authority to the courts, and dignity to the Senate

In a nation based on the 'consent of the governed,' judges are supposed to apply the laws the people have assented to.

One of the principles upon which the E.U. is built is the separation of powers and the independence of the judiciary.

In England Parliament is above the law. In America the law is above Congress.

We need to remind our core supporters that we have not forgotten their concern with the way our democracy is being replaced by European bureaucracy in so many areas.

No man can be subject to any laws, excepting those which have received the assent of himself or his representatives and which are promulgated beforehand and applied legally.

Once you are a proper, serious law-maker, you can't break the laws you're writing.

If the jury have no right to judge of the justice of a law of the government, they plainly can do nothing to protect the people against the oppressions of the government; for there are no oppressions which the government may not authorize by law.

They say that our sovereign is above his laws to his pleasure, and he may make it and break it as he pleases, without any distinction. The contrary is true, or else he should not have sworn to keep it.

The U.S.-led western alliance, while acting as an advocate of democracy, rule of law and human rights, is acting from the opposite position, rejecting the democratic principle of the sovereign right of states enshrined in the U.N. Charter and trying to decide for others what is good and what is bad.

Public officers are the servants and agents of the people, to execute the laws which the people have made.

Where the laws are not supreme, there demagogues spring up .... The law ought to be supreme over all.

Be you never so high the law is above you.

Law should rule over rulers, and not rulers over the law

There are plenty who think a union should not speak out, fight for or criticize the foreign policy of our government; that it should be a matter of our government, right or wrong, in matters of foreign policy. We have never adhered to that belief. And we shouldn’t.

We are a government of laws, not a government of rationalizations.

No longer may the head of a state consider himself outside the law, and impose inhuman acts on the peoples of the world.

If the president is allowed to govern by executive action, then the rule of law greatly suffers.

The State has invariably shown a striking talent for the expansion of its powers beyond any limits that might be imposed upon it.

The ruler who possesses methods of government does not follow the good that happens by chance but practices according to necessary principles. Law, methods, and power must be employed for government: these constitute its 'necessary principles.'

European Parliament should not be involved in foreign politics.

Britain must be the champion of international law.

The president can violate the law, and when he does, he is supposed to be held accountable. That is supposed to be one of the pillars of our democracy.

If political leaders want respect, they will begin by enforcing the global rule of law.

If my own country is subverting the rule of law and sending its own citizens, its military, into harm's way on the basis of lies and propaganda, I would argue that being a patriot is calling out those lies and saying, 'No, you don't send our military into harm's way with no legal justification.'