Viktor Orban complete speech of review of 2016

In this speech, the Hungarian leader shows historical quality statesmanship.

The Hungarian people are lucky to have a leader of this calibre.

Full text below:

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Respected [former] President Pál Schmitt and his dear wife,

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Dear Mrs. Dalma, [former] Prime Minister Peter Boros,

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everyone who invited me, ladies and gentlemen.

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It is good to see you all again,

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it is the 19th time — that is way too much, even from dumplings —

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I would like to evoke the words of István Szabó, our greatly respected bishop,

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in his little story, where two little boys

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are listening to the mass… “This is boring,”

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says the smaller one, then the older boy answers: “Well, this is how supposed to be.”

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… Well, dear audience,

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Today we do not have to be afraid of that.

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The year 2016 was not boring, not the least bit.

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And the year 2017 looks rather

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interesting too. We had — and we will have — excitement,

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surprise, scratching of heads,

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wiping of foreheads and rubbing of eyes.

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We will ask of each other: it is really possible,

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what unfolds before our eyes,

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and takes shape? Who would have

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thought — just a couple of years ago — that history

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would defy the prophecies, and laughingly show the fig sign

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to the prophets of liberal politics,

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and would lively show an “up yours!” to the beneficiaries and protectors of

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the international order: the globalists and

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liberals, to influential people, living in their

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ivory tower palaces and sitting in their television studios.

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To the army of media locusts and their masters.

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To everybody who believed, taught and spread,

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who enjoyed its gains and absorbed its revenues,

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that the global liberal world order is unalterable.

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That nation states are finished, and along with their devotees they

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may be relegated to the museums. And we simple citizens have only

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to accept this the eventuality and resign ourselves to it.

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And if we do not want to lament over our pinned down and

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jailed principles until the end of our lives,

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and we do not want to be hopeless losers,

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then we must stand in the line and get used to the

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liberal flavours of the open world. But history — respected

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ladies and gentlemen — did not read the writings of smart alecs.

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According to them, he — I mean history —

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is complete; his course and his riverbed have been appointed,

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and his flow only permitted to run between the well-built dikes.

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History did not read all these things;

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he simply did not know that for him it was all over.

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Kaput! Suddenly he put up his hands:

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“I am sorry, but I am still here, and I would like to show you a couple of

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new tricks.” He took a sharp turn.

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He broke through and swept away the carefully planned

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Dikes, and stepped out from his assigned riverbed.

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Indeed, respected ladies and gentlemen,

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from this you may see that history is ourselves,

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not just in Hungary, but in Europe too.

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Everybody, in our flesh and blood reality, with our ideals and thoughts,

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plans and hopes — we do not like and do not tolerate it

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when others want to tell us and decide for us,

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why are we in the world, what we should do and how we should do it,

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or not do it, what we should think or not think.

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Yes, my dear friends, it was a beautiful thing to see

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— just as in the 60th anniversary of the 1956 revolution —

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that in the world freedom is still such a big thing.

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How was all this possible in

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the 2016th year of our Lord? … Hubris!

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as the ancient Greeks would say. The mix of

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immodesty, cockiness and pathological self-love.

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Arrogance and a superiority complex,

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as they would say in the language of the modern world.

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The old mistake of the rich and powerful of mankind

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is when they believe, they can imagine themselves in the place of God, unpunished.

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They can just proclaim things, or make statements

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beyond any criticism, force utopias

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on countries and nations. They can decide what others can or cannot say,

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what they can or cannot not believe,

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appoint their circle of insiders and think that their global power

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is unquestionable. Money, media, world government

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and an open world society.

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In 2016 the people of the world,

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in many places, had enough. Brexit,

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the American presidential election,

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the tossed-out Italian government, the Hungarian migrant

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referendum, and after that more are coming, perhaps.

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“You start to become great again, oh people.”

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Of course — this is a reference to the people — in vain we use Pet?fi [revolutionary poet] to shield us.

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To the Liberals this is simply “populism”,

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which obviously, as a well-known fact, is an ugly thing,

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Harmful, and a fully “housebroken” politician would not say such things in Europe.

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However, my dear audience…

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…

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However, in 2016, this is exactly what happened.

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Those who were never asked, whose voices were never heard,

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who had never been in the circles of the media,

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who were tossed aside by the gears of global economy,

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the seemingly weak, the vulnerable ones,

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the ones in economic and cultural strait jackets,

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whose mouths were sealed in the name of political correctness,

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whom were promised that they will benefit from the

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global world economy and world government.

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Well, they have rebelled.

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They demand their countries back. They demand their economic

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and societal chances back. They demand the return of that world,

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the wide and colorful world of nations, where

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once upon a time they felt right at home.

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That is what was flowing and still flows from the American, the French,

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the Italian, the Dutch and the Austrian election campaigns.

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“The pie is hot” — as they say in the soccer dressing rooms. [slang — a tactic did not work, so we lose]

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European countries that are getting ready for election

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use such dramatic tones and speak with such dark voices

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that we Hungarians just shake our heads.

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Yes, from the previous ornate, nuanced, global citizens,

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courteous and polite leaders, opposition

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and government side alike, now argue about the survival of their homeland,

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the horrors of globalism, the flood of a fundamentalist

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migrant mass, endangering their nationality,

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and they orate about the bottomless appetite of world capital fattened up to planet size.

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What the heck happened to them?

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Looking at it from Central Europe, the first

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thought comes to mind: “The abundance made them lose their minds.”

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My mother used to say: “In their wealth, they do not even know

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what to do.” Very unusual thing, that.

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We have a hard time to even understanding. For seventy free and peaceful years,

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accumulated family and community wealth, high incomes,

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excellent universities, products piled up into mountains,

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roads, airports and high-speed trains.

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The Western, the Western European lifestyle, which

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is envy of the world and desired by everybody.

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After all, they are the rich ones. We go there to work, in hope

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of higher income. Self-confident, the West is sure

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about its own future, and the uncertain worrisome

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Eastern Europe, this was the setup until now, this is what we got used to.

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But if we listen carefully, we can understand that,

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in reality, they have serious doubts about their future.

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Of course, in the important clubs of the important people, they are just grimacing.

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For them this is too uncouth, a rough

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and earthy stink. They are not used to

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taking it straight, as they say it in the street,

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“pacekba” [slang — vulgar style]. They have never seen it before,

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that all kinds of mobs can just break into Dévény [important medieval fortress on the Slovakian border],

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in the new times, with long-forgotten old songs.

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My dear friends, these are not the arguments about tastes and styles.

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Moreover, we are also the members of the European Union.

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We can’t just pull ourselves out from under that. The bell

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will chime for us too; this is not a game and the bet is not in beans.

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The most serious stakes are at risk here.

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Western people feel their generation, and that generation’s

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fate can be decided. There is no pathos

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in this, no exaggeration. Can they continue the lifestyle they

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inherited from their parents, or has something irreversible happened

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without their consent, moreover against their will?

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Will they have the right to their own culture?

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Will they be able to defend the non-material intellectual possessions of Europe?

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Will they have a chance — as used to be the case —

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to learn in good schools and to have a job with a decent income,

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to thrive, to own property and establish a home,

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to raise a family and grow old with dignity.

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Will there be terror-free safety? And

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city life without fear? The present abundance

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and economy of the European Union do not matter,

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now that the future casts a shadow into the present.

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A long and dark shadow.

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It is not that we envious Easterners are saying that, nor is it

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the inept Soviet propaganda of the past; this is different.

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They are saying this about themselves, about their own situation,

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and about their own future. Respected ladies and gentlemen,

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the military positions in 2016 were drawn with sharp contours.

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Nations rebelled against the globalists,

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and the middle class revolted against their leaders.

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This means in our community, in the European Union,

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that we, the sovereign nations, are standing against

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the Unionists, and the voters are standing against

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the bureaucrats from Brussels. All of this

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did not happen between one day and another like a thunderclap, but

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is rather the bitter and thorny fruit of dissatisfaction

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that grew ripe over long years.

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But why did the dissatisfaction turn into a rebellion?

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Up until now they taught us that the old

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Western democracies represent a higher quality

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than that of the dirty Central European democracies

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just now writhing their way out of that lousy socialism.

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Because over there in the West, democracy does not only mean free elections, but

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rather the living tissue of freedom, an adaptable, flexible

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organism, which continuously responds to changes

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and is capable of repairing its own faults

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over time. Perhaps this was once true.

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Once upon a time, when the European democracies

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were at the apogee of their orbit.

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But since then the era of open societies dawned upon

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the Western part of Europe and over the great ocean, too,

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and gave birth to their thought police: political

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correctness. Some years ago

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democracy was based on debate,

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precise measurements of pro and con arguments,

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open expression, free thoughts and

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associations, vibrant, encouraging

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innovative solutions, a lively intellectual life.

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That is why was so attractive to our gladly-visiting neighbors,

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pub-loving, café-gossiping Hungarian folk, too.

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The new political system, the so-called “open society”,

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liquidated all of this.

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Instead of a debate-based democracy, a correctness-based democracy arrived.

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In the terrain of ideology, that meant

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the liberal intellectual trend turned against the ideal of democracy,

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that is, the majority-based ideal, against the will

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of the cohesive majority community.

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In the political realm, the open society meant that the true

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power, decisions and influence, instead of residing with elected parliamentary

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representatives and governments, were put into the

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hands of unelected global network of people, to media gurus

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and the unelected international organizations, for whom nobody voted,

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and they outsourced it to their local offices.

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In the economic sphere, the open society

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Meant that peoples and nations

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and cultures would be cut to size — like hamburgers —

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so that they could make products out of them.

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Countries were to be converted to railway stations — everybody can freely go in and out.

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And finally, with the tearing down of the rules of economic self-defence,

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they let the foxes into the hen house, so they can freely

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compete there. And it’s nobody’s fault that the foxes are

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always winning. And when hapless slowly-awakening

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European citizens tried to put their foot down,

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they would be flooded with a couple of million migrants.

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If these backward Europeans were unable to free themselves

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from their Christian nature and from their nationalistic feelings,

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or if they did not want to be freed from them, did not understand the good word,

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then let’s dig deeper, let’s replace the subsoil

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of European life too; let masses come in who have

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a different religion, raised with different morals and customs,

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who do not understand anything in Europe, and

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let them teach us a lesson. This how there came to be

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the world’s most bizarre alliance between human smugglers,

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human rights activists and top European politicians,

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for that purpose, in a pre-planned way, to transport

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into Europe many millions of migrants.

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What will come of this? …

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…

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… So the question is,

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What. will. come. of. this…? In conclusion,

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at the beginning of 2017 we can state that the rulers among globalist

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politicians are not looking inside themselves for faults, but

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blaming the people and the nations. They decided they will not give up

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their positions, and the people’s opposing will against

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the open society and liberal governments will be extinguished.

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they proclaimed that if their ideological comrades,

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if the liberals do not win the elections in any country,

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then democracy no longer exists.

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They proclaimed that the people are endangering democracy.

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And because the people are dangerous, the ones who until now

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hysterically demanded the freedom of the press suddenly want

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to restrict the press, the media and the internet.

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If someone finds something that us not unbiased and neutral

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enough on Hungarian “Royal” state TV [Soros-paid opposition calls it “Royal”, Orbán being the dictator (king)]

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They should switch over to some American channel; it will be refreshing

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to switch back … If the…

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… If the dissatisfied ones do not keep their mouths shut,

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or if the media fail to inhibit their voice, then they will be denounced,

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stigmatized and disinherited. And in this,

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there is no mercy, even for the new American President.

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No wonder then, that the high pressure became permanent

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in the European Union. The valves sooner or later will seize up and stop working,

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and the people, lacking any other options, will revolt.

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That is, they are kicking it out with their votes,

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tossing out the liberal elite. This is how the world works now,

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respected ladies and gentlemen, respected [former] President, in the wintertime

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of 2017. That’s enough of all this.

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Because we are not gathered here to evaluate the European Union,

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no matter how alluring for a Hungarian the perspective of

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world governance might be. But… but… [a joke at Soros’ expense — translator]

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But how are the…

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but how are things for the Hungarians?

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… First of all, Hungary’s situation

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should be examined, embedded into the European processes,

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and then evaluated from there. Looking at it from this angle, it is clearly visible:

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we have been through the rebellion.

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Compared to us, the others are debutantes.

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We were one of the first or perhaps THE first

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that rebelled in 2010.

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We proclaimed — and with seven years of sweaty work,

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we built up — our own economic and political

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system. Tailored to our own body,

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made to our taste, based on our traditions,

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for our instincts, forged from our way of thinking,

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the Hungarian model, the system of national cooperation.

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National because it is comes from within…

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… Cooperation, because it is not at the expense of each other,

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but we want to succeed by helping each other, and

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because the foundation of the system, its walls and its roof,

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its components and its parts, were held together by

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logic and rules of common sense, and because its carpentry

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was based on the iron laws of economy and history.

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That is why we have to insist that tax deductions

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and wage increases always must be backed by

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the competitiveness of the Hungarian economy.

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The binding material of the Hungarian model is courage.

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Without it, no political superstructure can stand,

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especially not here, in the windy Carpathian Valley.

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We bravely redrew the borderline between politics

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and economy. The borderline between the state and the market.

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And between the proven and new ideas, too.

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We did all this in such a way that the stability of the country

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would not waver, not even for a moment.

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The stability of politics, especially in critical times,

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is a necessity above everything else.

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In the 20th century, especially at times of crisis,

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our leaders failed and were incapable

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of leading and directing our country.

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We become vulnerable in the face of our enemies and

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people who wished us ill. That was a big lesson. The consequences

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were the loss of homeland, servitude and

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misery. The loss of political stability, which is such

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a luxury, we can’t let happen again,

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and it will not happen so long we are at the helm.

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We are not kidding about that, and no forgiveness.

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…

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… Respected ladies and gentlemen.

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We rebelled first, when we decided

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to send the IMF home, to buttress the big banks’ accountability, to tax

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the multinational corporations and to eliminate loans in foreign currencies.

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We rebelled when they told us it not possible to correct the financial system

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and to start up economic growth at the same time. We started it,

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and we showed it. In the last four years the Hungarian economy

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has grown continuously. We tallied against unemployment, when they stated

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that in a modern market economy we must live with it.

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We set our sites on full employment and

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we aimed for one million new jobs. Seven years later,

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700,000 new workplaces have been created.

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They also wanted to forbid…

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… They also wanted to forbid the reduction living costs

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For families. But finally we were able to break down the cartel of

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the big providers and Brussels, the resistance of the opposition, and we made it happen.

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The previous government of the United States, Brussels,

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and additionally Berlin too, all proclaimed

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that stopping the migrants is not allowed, and anyway it is not possible.

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We resisted, drew a border, built a fence,

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recruited border hunters [the new border protection service].

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We defended Hungary, and incidentally Europe, too.

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… and with the referendum, we forbade others

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to decide who can came into our country and who cannot.

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Of course we will accept the real refugees.

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The Germans, Dutch, French and Italians,

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… frightened politicians and journalists,

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… Christians who were forced

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to leave their homelands, who lost their Europe

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and hope to find it with us.

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Ladies and gentlemen, respected association,

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we were a black sheep, but today

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we have become a success story. Even reluctantly,

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those who do not like how we reached it are forced

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to acknowledge it. Nothing

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is as successful as success…

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we ended up today that financial rating companies

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have upgrade us several years in a row. Finally, in 2016

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the lower middle class is making

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a living from employment, but with low incomes

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they managed to start a life. Incomes are growing,

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family debt is decreasing, and they can now

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buy more and more with their income. Just in time — they did a lot to earn it.

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Not welfare, not gifts, not grants,

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not the dole, but real wages,

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real performance and inherent recognition and respect.

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It would not be good if the respectability of

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having a lower-income job, requiring less knowledge

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but hard work, were to decrease,

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if by adopting Western fads, we were to bring the cheap labour

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of foreigners to fulfill such positions.

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Instead of that, I would recommend that all workplaces,

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all properly performed work,

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and all workers should be esteemed. We should be capable

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of maintaining our own country…

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… we must be capable

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of maintaining our own country and we manage it.

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We need everybody: Hungarian cleaning ladies,

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navvies, draymen, utility workers

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and day laborers, we must respect them in the future, too.

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That is why we raise the minimum wage by 15%,

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and workmen’s minimum wage by 25%. We are one nation

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and one country; they also have a place in our common future.

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Respected audience …

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…

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It is hard to say certain things about the future. You can see

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things can turn upside down from one day to another, at moment’s notice.

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But we still can’t throw off the responsibility

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of forecasting from our shoulders. Governance and the leadership

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of the country should be provident, and that is a justifiable expectation,

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if haze descends on the landscape.

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This much — while exercising caution —

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can be stated: the future of Hungarians,

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— including students and pensioners, too —

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is secured. Hungary is getting stronger,

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flourishing. Not that we received it as a gift; we did not win it,

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not did others blow the wind into our sails, but

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we all worked for it, all ten million of us. We work

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our debts off continuously, our economy is growing,

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wages are continuously increasing;

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soon we will reach full employment, so everybody will have a job.

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I am personally committed to that;

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no child should grow up here without

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seeing his parents working. … Our borders are protected,

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…

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…

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… Our borders are protected.

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Our public safety is held in the right hands.

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Our police are dedicated and effective in tracking down crime.

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The people in the Office of Disaster Recovery

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are in constant readiness. Our soldiers are on alert,

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ready to serve in one of Central Europe’s

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military operations. Our family support system is slowly

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becoming unique in Europe, and versatile.

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The kids are in kindergarten from age three.

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They get to eat; 318,000 of them for free. [low income families get free meals for kids]

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We are taking care of them.

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We prepare them for school, and we mitigate

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the disadvantages brought from home. [mostly in the case of gypsy families — translator]

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730,000 students are receiving their books for free.

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In school, besides teaching we also provide guidance,

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everyday physical training, the teaching of faith and morals

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will stay, and we will improve its quality.

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Our middle schools are awaiting them [children], even the acquiring of

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a second diploma is also paid now by the state.

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Since 2010, 97,000

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Hungarians were able to learn or teach abroad,

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with the help of European Union, too.

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Between 2013 and 2017

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teachers’ income increased an average of 50%.

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Instructors and researchers will increase

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by 27% through 2018. Doctors’, medical specialists’ and

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pharmacists’ income — in two steps — will increase by 207,000 forint.

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By 2018 nurses’ income

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will on average increase by 56%.

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We modernized 71 hospitals; we built

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23 new clinics; 45 were revived.

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We built 27 new ambulance stations,

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and 35 others were renovated.

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To ensure our safe development, we concluded

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the necessary foreign policy and economic agreements.

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We have our own independent foreign policy.

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Every important actor in world politics and economy

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is interested, but at least not against our successes.

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Hungarian exports just yesterday broke some

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new historic records. That means,

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we are competitive in the larger world.

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We will break some diplomatic records this year.

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For a long time we have had such comings and goings here.

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After the Russian president, we await the Chinese prime minister, we await the prime minister

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of the state of Israel. From July we direct

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the work of Visegrad Four. In the fall we host

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a summit of sixteen European heads of state.

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About tomorrow …

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…

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To sum it up for you: concerning tomorrow,

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we have no reason to be nervous about it. Families will recuperate,

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and they will recover financially, too.

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In Hungary tomorrow does not cast a shadow onto today.

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If everyone does his job effectively and obey the laws,

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we will have no problems, and every year, everybody

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can then move ahead. This is all well and good,

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but we are still far away from being able to say: this is enough.

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We have no reason to brag; quite the opposite:

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I advise everyone, we have to be modest now,

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because now we have something to be modest about.

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Respected ladies and gentlemen, I confess

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…

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I confess to you, I rack my brains not about tomorrow but the day after tomorrow.

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What will happen to Hungarians? What will happen to Hungarian life?

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15-20 years from now?

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We can rejoice, that the number of births since 2010 is the highest.

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The number of marriages has also increased.

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The population decrease has not been that slow since before that, too. But the decrease,

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even when it is slow, remains a decrease.

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The number of children one decides to have is for every person the most intimate

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choice; although it is personal, it is also the most important, too,

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for our community. I also know

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that in this, the dimension of change is measured in decades.

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Success depends on the predictability of child policies and endurances,

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but I would like you to know, that on this frontier

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we have not yet reached a breakthrough. So the government

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will provide all possible support, if someone decides to undertake to raise children.

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They say …

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… They say

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It is not possible to find any correlation between

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living standards and the demographic indicators,

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but I believe that it is possible

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to find a correlation between a nation’s will to live, and

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people finding themselves, and the demographic

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indicators. In the fact, they are capable of believing,

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Trusting in their nation and the future of their descendants,

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and in the fact of how many children they want to raise.

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I am convinced there is a correlation between what we have accomplished over

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the last seven years and the fact that this nation wants to become

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young again. What is maybe not possible for older people —

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to become young again — is possible for a nation.

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For an aging population can be young again; it only

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depends on us; we just must want it to be so.

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It is a beautiful thing, too, that from the age of three

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our children enter the kindergarten educational system.

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It is good too, that the state pays for

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meals and study books. But in the meantime,

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are we educating them to love their country? Are we giving them patriotic feelings

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and teaching them patriotic thinking? Whether

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Hungary will become their shared passion like

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it is for us. Will they have the feeling of national justice?

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Which will be nourished by the love for one’s country. Will they understand

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that we only avoid the fate of being servants of others,

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that we only remain independent and free

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as a nation, so long we declare ourselves Hungarians.

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All of this we should teach very carefully in our schools,

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because that is the only way for our children to understand what is connected

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and keeps us together. And I have to admit that today

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I do not see a guarantee of that yet. And from the question mark,

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robotic technology and the digital revolution,

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would not be enough, here banging on our door,

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which after the economy have reached the world of life sciences.

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Not just the machines and the technology,

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and the necessary knowledge are changing, but slowly we must

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face with the change of our human existence, too.

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We are stretching our borders, we stepping over some

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ancient borderlines. Borders between species,

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borderlines between living beings

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and man-made machines. We are at the threshold of

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tempting our God. The results of science,

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healing diseases are inspiring for us.

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But perspectives are also upsetting.

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We must prepare for those changes, too. I would like to stop here;

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I think I rushed too far ahead. Let’s leave something for the next annual review.

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Respected ladies and gentlemen,

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in 2017 Hungarian politics must find answers

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To five serious questions. It must defend

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Against five big attacks. That is why in 2017

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we must have anew national politics.

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This year, even at the beginning, Brussels

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wants to forbid us to lower living costs. [Hungary has profit-limiting state regulations on energy companies]

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Their plan is already on the table: instead of independent national energy politics,

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they want central regulation, where

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they would take away the right of states to establish energy prices.

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The question will be: can we defend our price regulation;

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should we insist on our right to determine prices;

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or accept the decision of Brussels and surrender the right to make decisions

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— to set prices — to big companies?

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The case of migration remains in question, too. No matter that

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illegal immigration brings up unsolvable problems and danger of terror

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all across Europe; no matter the everyday bloody reality,

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and the horrifying facts; the migrants can move unrestricted

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all over Europe, until their case is finally adjudicated.

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The question of the year 2017 will be:

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Should we keep them in custody

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until a legally binding decision is made about them?

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And in 2017 we must also face the increasing

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activities of international organizations.

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In an increasing number of countries, including ours,

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— especially we will have an election too, in 2018, which causes problems

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that in secret — financed by foreign sources — they want

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to influence the Hungarian politics. I believe we have proven

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many times that we are capable of making decisions about our own fate.

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So the question is: will we allow

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non-transparent attempts at foreign influence?

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Here we are not talking about (real) civilian organizations,

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which thrive to champion some important cause.

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Here we are talking about international organizations and their paid activists,

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and their local Hungarian offices. Are we going to do something about this?

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At least for the purpose of their transparency and

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00:37:28,000 –> 00:37:32,000
their accountability. We also must be aware, respected ladies and gentlemen,

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that there are some large-bodied predators swimming in the water.

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This is the transnational empire of George Soros,

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with lots of money and international artillery.

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I still feel that we have had enough,

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that despite of the will of the people — shown in the quota referendum —

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George Soros’ organizations work continuously to

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transport the migrants by the hundreds of thousands to Europe.

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They work, to divert the Hungarian Parliament and Hungarian government

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from the path on which the people’s will is directing them.

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In 2017 do we want pour clean water into the glass?

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Or as, I heard it not long ago: “Let’s pour clean water on the cards on the table”?

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… In 2016

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In 2016 … it came to light

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that Brussels wants to collect more and more economic concessions,

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00:38:28,000 –> 00:38:32,000
wants to skim more away from the nation states.

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00:38:32,000 –> 00:38:36,000
The “code name” in Brussels’ language is “social pillar”.

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It also happened earlier that Brussels blocked

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the Hungarian government’s radical tax cuts.

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We could increase taxes, but were never to decrease them. So the question is

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whether we want it, and are we going to be capable of

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00:38:52,000 –> 00:38:56,000
keeping our tax policies under our national purview. Can we freely make a nation’s

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decisions about our own taxes? And finally: we must be prepared

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00:39:00,000 –> 00:39:04,000
that Brussels will attack our job-creation programs,

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00:39:04,000 –> 00:39:08,000
too. Numerous countries, including ourselves,

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are using this economy-boosting tool.

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So the question is whether the nations should decide,

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whether they want to give support for their companies to create jobs, or

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whether we should hand over that right, also, to Brussels. These are the five questions

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to which we Hungarians must give an unequivocal answer, if we

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want that our country in the year 2017

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to remain a winning country. In reality,

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behind all five questions stands the issue of national sovereignty.

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So we have now returned to the starting point,

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nations against globalists, sovereignists against unionists.

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If we want solid and stable answers,

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we must find agreement with the people. We must ask them,

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to make them stand beside us, just like we did in the past,

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in every important question. It is not enough if we do not allow,

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but the Hungarian people would not allow

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others to make decisions above their heads. Respected ladies and gentlemen,

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finally we have only one question left.

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Did the government do a good job governing the country in 2016?

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We could even refuse the question,

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because its judgement belongs to the

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citizens rather than us. But I am not avoiding it.

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You must know I am a big believer in open talk.

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Moreover, we can find something instructive, if we look hard enough.

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We can have tax cuts, wage increases, full employment.

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No matter how thick the butter is on the bread, the Hungarian

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man always thinks: I would like to see a government

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I am satisfied with. That is the Hungarian way of thinking.

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And because that is the way, from the noise of dissatisfaction

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we should never ever take offense. It is enough.

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I have seen plenty of offended prime ministers, and believe me,

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they were not a pretty sight. But …

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…

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… But not just taking offence,

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we must also never become uncertain.

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The Hungarians have suffered enough from uncertainty, impotence,

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to not even say, “s***head” leaders.

623
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… From those …

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… From those, who always explained

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why something is not possible and how unjust it is that the

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people are always asking impossible things from them.

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Who always explained to audiences, “but the circumstances,

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the circumstances are robbing us of our dreams,

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thwarting our plans and restraining our hands.” My dear friends,

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from this it is just one step to self-pity,

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and self-pity was for so long our

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God-given curse. Comforting each other,

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with hands in our laps,

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turning our eyes hopelessly to the sky,

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while sitting in the lukewarm water of impotence and complaint and envy

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Were those who want to do something; well, that was the culture of the

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socialist governments. This is where we tore ourselves away from;

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this is the ancient source of all our results.

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… Succeeded, finally Hungary succeeded,

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to step over from the culture of self-pity to the culture of

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Activity. Dear ladies and gentlemen, the poet

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Sandor Marai taught us we can’t be mediocre.

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That is the iron law

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of the Hungarian political leadership, too.

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Hungarians should never be happy with mediocre leadership and mediocre government.

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They need more, and they deserve more.

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But a good question is: what do good governance and a good leader look like?

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By my understanding, good governance is

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what will take the people to their destination.

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When we arrive, the people not even think they need leaders.

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Let the year 2017 be such a year, where in the end

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we will feel, this went off by itself, like a charm.

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Hoorah Hungary! Hoorah Hungarians!

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…