"As the contemporary writer Robert Menasse once observed, Austrians had to wonder whether they actually lived in a democracy, given that, whatever the election outcome, there never seemed to be an opposition."

- NY Review of Books article from 2016

 

"In 2013, Babis's party, the Action of Dissatisfied Citizens (ANO), an acronym that spells "yes" in Czech, won 18.65 percent in national parliamentary elections. Its pitch was straight out of the new-party-led-by-a-businessman playbook: Trust me, I'm a successful businessman, and I know how to get things done."

- Washington Post article