"The will of the European people was ignored today in Brussels.
"The result of the European election is clear:
"right-wing parties got stronger, the Left and the liberals lost ground. The EPP, on the other hand, instead of listening to the voters, finally teamed up with the socialists and the liberals:
"today they made a deal and divided the top jobs of the EU among themselves.
"They don't care about reality, they don’t care about the results of the European elections, and they don’t care about the will of the European people. We shouldn’t be naive: they will continue to support migration and send even more money and weapons to the Russia-Ukraine war.
"We will not give in to this! We will unite the forces of the European right and fight against pro-migration and pro-war bureaucrats."
-- Hungarian Prime Minister Viktor Orban
"In the discussions to which this interest has given rise and in the arrangements by which they may terminate the occasion has been judged proper for asserting, as a principle in which the rights and interests of the United States are involved, that the American continents, by the free and independent condition which they have assumed and maintain, are henceforth not to be considered as subjects for future colonization by any European powers. "
-- James Monroe, speech to the US Congress on December 2, 1823