Viktor Orban Quotes

Campaign ads are the backbone of American democracy if American democracy suffered a gigantic spinal injury.

Once you don't vote your ideals... that has serious undermining affects. It erodes the moral basis of our democracy.

The reality of going before the voters and seeking election should force Congressmen to behave.

I belong to the political party that generally fits my philosophical beliefs, but I reserve the right to vote my conscience after careful deliberation. My voting record reflects this.

Voters are smart. They know the difference between a Democratic Party that wants their vote and a Democratic Party that believes in making their life better. They'll forgive you for pushing a policy they don't like as long as they believe you're doing it because you genuinely believe it's what's best for the country.

A man ain't got not right to be a public man, unless he meets the public views.

We shall have to fight the politician who remembers only that the unborn have no votes and that since posterity has done nothing for us we need do nothing for posterity.

Those who would treat politics and morality apart will never understand the one or the other.

There is a Holiness about the Constitution; and we would ... wither every hand extended to treat it rudely. The peace and prosperity of this Republic, the world's last best hope, must not be haphazarded, much less destroyed, that certain men may rule

Politics has almost become an increasingly pejorative term in our culture. "Politicking" is not something to which we attribute a lot of value, but that itself is a major issue and a problem, and it is a decline in public culture, to have come to that point.

I have seen in the Halls of Congress more idealism, more humaneness, more compassion, more profiles of courage than in any other institution that I have ever known.

Congress is afraid of the voters, and the voters are looking for leadership.

How shall those who practice election frauds recover that respect for the sanctity of the ballot which is the first condition and obligation of good citizenship? The man who has come to regard the ballot box as a juggler's hat has renounced his allegiance.

Abstention is a dereliction of citizenship: always cast a vote, if only to cast stones at the most hated.

America is a country which produces citizens who will cross the ocean to fight for democracy, but won't cross the street to vote.

The morality of a [political] party must grow out of the conscience and the participation of the voters.

The best citizens were supposed to desire honest men in office, men who would not take bribes, men who would appoint high-minded men as their subordinates, men who would look after the public interest, see that public charities were well supported.

It is not parties that make or save countries or that build them to greatness. It is clean men, clean ordinary citizens, the masses.

It goes without saying that it's important to vote.

I think that's the beauty of elections: You can't hide from who you are. The more honestly and directly you communicate to people why you're doing this, the way in which you want to serve them, I just think that the better, more informed decision that they can make.

Especially among journalists, politics is not a pursuit that's held in high esteem. We tend to be cynical about it - but I actually believe in democracy.

Naturally, when it comes to voting, we in Texas are accustomed to discerning that fine hair's-breadth worth of difference that makes one hopeless dipstick slightly less awful than the other. But it does raise the question: Why bother?

If you believe in democracy, than you can't trash it by being cynical about the people who do democracy: the politicians.

'Get along, go along' is not an inspirational philosophy, and only God knows how much moral cowardice it has covered up over the years. Serve your time, collect your chits, and cash 'em in for your home state? No, I'd say we could ask for more than that from our senators.

My policy has always been to say what I believe to be in the best interest of the American people and hope the voters agree, or at least will respect my honesty.