Viktor Orban Quotes

During an economic crisis, what matters is that the government keeps its foot on the accelerator.

Whatever the economy needs to maintain itself, the government will do it.

In a normal time, I don't think economic policy makes a large difference one way or another. But in times of crisis it makes all the difference in the world.

Discussions of the economy, especially during times of crisis, are often framed in terms of lessons we supposedly learned during the Depression of the 1930s. If we are not to endure terrible times like those again, we are told, we must support whatever form of state intervention is currently being peddled.

The party cannot relinquish its leading role in the economy.

In the past six months, our federal government has devised a dozen strategies to save America's financial markets. Each plan has been more costly, more risky, and less aligned with the principles of our country's free market economy than the last. I am disappointed to say that this latest plan puts all the rest of them to shame.

What I object to the current government intervention in so-called 'solving the crisis', they haven't solved anything. They've just postponed it.

I think one of the lessons of the Depression - and this is something that Franklin Roosevelt demonstrated - was that when orthodoxy fails, then you need to try new things. And he was very willing to try unorthodox approaches when the orthodox approach had shown that it was not adequate.

I think people are sick and tired of bailouts, domestically and internationally.

The most important point is, in a time of crisis, there is no way out but for the government to be bold and aggressive.

There isn’t that much that Washington can do to effect the economy.

I think Ben Bernanke and Tim Geithner shared the view that they shouldn't be in the business of bailouts, but you know, you're not in the business of bailouts until you frankly think you need to be.

The Keynesian idea is once again accepted that fiscal policy and deficit spending has a major role to play in guiding a market economy. I wish Friedman were still alive so he could witness how his extremism led to the defeat of his own ideas.

When Obama was inaugurated, he and his team had an insight - though whether the insight was conscious or not I don't know. But it was this: The TARP $700 billion price tag was a new kind of model.

The Democrats want government to do the spending. Senator McCain wants families to do the spending.

I think there's no question but what the tail end of the Bush administration, Bush-Cheney administration, that we took steps specifically geared to try and free up the financial sector.

The Fed is the major U.S. firefighter. It's not the Treasury. It's not the Congress. We certainly saw that vividly in 2008.

The lesson of history is that you do not get a sustained economic recovery as long as the financial system is in crisis.

The global economy is spluttering back into life. The Tories would have left it to choke to death.

In all modesty, we must admit that governments are not always the best doctors when it comes to diagnosing economic ailments and prescribing the right treatment.

I take office during the most difficult moment in the country's recent history. The country can be saved - it's up to us. I think it is obvious for those who support this government to undertake the commitment and ensure that our country's euro membership is not endangered.

In the past, proactive fiscal polices almost always meant just more investment and an increase in the fiscal deficit.

The Prime Minister in the UK thinks spending and borrowing more is the right thing to do in the circumstances, and is busily trying to bail out chunks of the private sector which would otherwise have to adjust more quickly to the painful reality that we have been living beyond our means.

We now consider as fundamental economic functions of the state, many duties that were left a generation ago to chance.

But despite historic levels of obstruction, President Obama was able to bring the economy back from the verge of a second Great Depression.