Viktor Orban Quotes
We do not want to go to the U.K. and take something from them. We do not want to be parasites. We want to work there, and I think that Hungarians are working well.
Orbán, Viktor. Joint Press Conference with UK Prime Minister David Cameron. Cabinet Office of the Prime Minister, 7 Jan. 2016, Budapest.
It was fairly common for Englishmen to never have been more than 50 miles from his place of birth. Transportation was slow and crude and expensive. At the same time, economic conditions were relatively good in England eliminating the necessity of migration for survival—unlike Scotland which had much more mobility. Although Toynbee observed the greater mobility of labor in the United States, at the time it was much less than it became with the construction of the National Highway System and the dominance of the automobile as a mode of transportation followed by low cost air transport.
India had just recently gained its independence from Britain.
Unlike the United States where there is great toleration for immigrants to retain their old language and culture, there is an expectation in Germany, France and much of the rest of Europe that immigrants when they come to Germany will act like Germans, dress like Germans, speak German, and follow German social customs.
Although, on sever occasions Mao tried to reach out to the United States, the fact that he was leading a communist movement and Chiang Kai-shek, our recognized ruler of China hated Mao caused his overtures to be rebuffed. American military leaders knew very little about China and our intelligence was almost non-existent. They assumed that he was under the control of Russia and Joseph Stalin when in fact, the Russians wanted to oust Mao for not following Stalin’s communist orthodoxy. They succeeded in firing him as head of the party and replacing him with a committee of more loyal communists. Not only did the US rebuff Mau’s outreach attempts, but American money and military material financed 6 different military campaigns by Chiang to exterminate Mao and his communists.
None succeeded as the vast majority of the peasants supported Mao and his troops and provided support and information in Chiang’s attempts. Some historians believe we “bet on the wrong horse”.
Viktor Mihály Orbán is a Hungarian politician who has been Prime Minister of Hungary since 2010; he was also Prime Minister from 1998 to 2002. He has also been President of Fidesz, a national conservative political party, since 1993, with a brief break between 2000 and 2003. Under his control it became the most centralized, most homogeneous and most disciplined party in Hungarian history. He supervises communications, long-term planning, daily operations, policy direction, and selection of candidates.
