Ukraine Quotations

Ukraine must once again be revered and respected by its citizens as well as the East and the West.

Ukraine is a vital link for Europe: our energy transportation networks; our location between the European Union and Eurasia. We're the melting pot of Catholicism and Orthodox Christianity. The democracy we founded with the Orange Revolution has to be an example for other post-Soviet states.

There is only one conflict in Ukraine today and it is between the regime and the people.

I am a citizen of the world, and also a citizen of Ukraine.

My goal in politics from the very beginning has been, and will be, the goal of giving Ukraine a chance to finally secure a firm footing in the world as a competitive, independent and real European state.

The demonstrators in Ukraine will persevere and succeed, or grow tired, cold and fade.

I will work for Bulgaria's strategic choice - Bulgaria's membership in the European Union and NATO. I think it is also extremely important to revive Bulgaria's relations with Russia, Ukraine and other strategic partners.

We must improve our lives and we will do it together - all of our citizens and myself as president of Ukraine.

The image of Russian troops pouring into Ukraine and encircling military units in Crimea has been a wake-up call that will reverberate for a generation.

Today in Ukraine, many people struggle to survive, older ones often see the breakdown of the Soviet system as a loss of stability and security for average people, and therefore a certain hostility to quickly acquired wealth is from their point of view quite understandable at the first look.

I know the Russian political elite has got used to the Ukraine suffering from an inferiority complex, but I want this to disappear from our relationship.

The recent history of Ukraine is replete with dead journalists, beaten journalists, news agencies being shut down, and politicians being injured or killed. Most are killed in mysterious auto accidents.

I ask you, people who care about the soul of Ukraine, those who want to preserve the heart, the spirit and the faith of our country for future generations, to please defend it.

The Western media tends to place a lot of emphasis on official institutions in Ukraine such as its supreme court, the central election commission, and the parliament. In reality, the people of Ukraine now control their destiny.

Death solves all problems - no man, no problem.

The old bastions of the post-communist regime collapsed before my very eyes. The monsters who had kept Ukraine in a criminal state left the stage.

Ukraine is also successfully moving toward democracy and making progress expanding freedoms and rights to its people. We can help Ukraine achieve these goals and improve its economy by normalizing trade relations.

Ukraine had quite serious impact on the many Russians. They could see that ordinary people in Ukraine which is a bordering state, very close to Russia, the people of this state are, they didn't want to tolerate anymore the power abuse by Ukrainian officials.

As long as the opposition believes the world will stand with Ukraine's democrat reformers, they will have the leverage and the courage to establish a legitimate republic under the leadership of Viktor Yushchenko.

Ukraine is a big country. It is 45-46 million people. It has got a lot of modern industry; it also has a lot of very key resources. There is no reason for it not to be one of the leading countries of Europe.

When you live in a small town in the Ukraine, you definitely want to go to Paris.

Russians not only vehemently despise blacks, they believe Africa begins at the Ukraine border.

Our - our friends can't trust us anymore. You know, Ukraine was a nuclear-armed state. They gave away their nuclear arms with the understanding that we would protect them. We won't even give them offensive weapons.

Ukraine will undergo a catastrophe if its political elite does not put the country's interests above career ambitions and narrow prejudices.

Ukraine that existed before the elections no longer exists. It has been split up into two sides with absolutely opposite opinions,

Ukraine refused, which shows that the Ukrainian authorities planned a conflict from the very beginning, i.e. to tap, or rather steal, gas intended for European consumers.

Ukraine is very profoundly divided. We have to do our utmost so that this country is able to rally together and so that we don't have this profound division. We still have time for a dialogue.

Ukraine is taking the gas from our European partners. We decided to compensate the stolen gas for our partners.

Ukraine has wasted time in these talks, and now there can be no talk of US$160. The market situation has changed, and it's continuing to change.

We do not want Ukraine to default. On the contrary, we need an economically viable partner. However, debts should be paid, and this includes state and commercial debts

I'll tell what reckless is. What reckless is is calling [Bashar] Assad a reformer. What reckless is allowing Russia to come into Crimea and Ukraine. What reckless is is inviting Russia into Syria to team with Iran. That is reckless. And the reckless people are the folks in the White House right now. Barack Obama and Hillary Clinton are the reckless people.

To go into Ukraine and to take over, to invade Crimea, is a huge step. And [Russian President Vladimir Putin] would only have done it with a president who has shown from the very beginning that [President Obama] is living in a fantasy world...They imagine the world as a new interconnected world where climate change is the biggest threat and they are shocked that the Russians actually are interested in territory.

What I'd do is not have USAID and the National Endowment for Democracy working with U.S. taxpayers' money to knock off an elected government in Ukraine, which is what they did. I wouldn't try to force the people of Ukraine into a deal with NATO against their interest or into a deal with the European Union, which is against their economic interest.

We reached an agreement on mutually beneficial, mutually acceptable terms that will make it possible to supply Ukraine with the full volume of gas it needs and provide for the transport of Russian gas to Europe.

We have reached an initially acceptable agreement which gives us the possibility to meet the gas needs of Ukraine and the transit of Russian gas to Europe.

In Russia there is great interethnic hatred, class hatred - I mean hatred for wealthy people - that is stirred up by official propaganda. That is why there can be no 'velvet' solution, as there was, for example, in Georgia or Ukraine.

I'm afraid Putin will kill me. I believe that he was the one who unleashed the war in Ukraine. I couldn't dislike him more.

We have information from the ground that shows Ukraine has started illegally siphoning off Russian gas destined for European consumers.

There is an abundance of ancient place names in the Ukraine and Poland, which derive from 'Khazar' or 'Zhid' (Jew).

Since the EU has applied a market economy status to Ukraine then Ukraine should live up to that.

Nuclear power is just as dangerous for Canada in 2006 as it was for Ukraine in 1986. A catastrophic accident has a low probability, but devastating consequences.

Polls show the attitude of Russians toward Ukraine has deteriorated lately. So, people might easily believe that Ukrainians want to do them harm.

Nobody is coming to this place to learn about Ukraine democracy or to be inspired by the courage of Tibetan monks,

If we knew there was a Russian family around, we'd try to get together, especially around holidays. Although the former Soviet states are now separate, we still feel ties together with the people of Russia or Ukraine or Belarus or Serbia. We were brought up with this culture and religion. Especially here in the U.S., it's important to keep our religion and heritage.

I am convinced that this project meets the interests of both Ukraine and Poland. Moreover, I can say that the Odessa-Brody project, later involving Gdansk, can become one of the most interesting new projects in the European wholesale oil market.

I am against Ukraine supporting any sanctions against Belarus. We should not teach people democracy while we have many problems of our own.

bury the hatchet and not violate the ideas of Independence Square because we stood there together and at that time we elected the president of Ukraine and not the prime minister.

I had one companion. He was a teacher from the Ukraine who spoke English so we could communicate a bit. I learnt a few Russian words, but it was hard to concentrate.

If in the remaining hours, Ukraine does not sign a contract for gas, then at 10 a.m. Moscow time on Jan. 1 the Russian Federation will completely sever supplies to the Ukrainian customer.

Freedom and truth are returning to Ukraine following today's decision.

If we win the Denmark and Ukraine matches we will not have a problem. We think that seven points will take us to the 2006 finals.

We are fully prepared to restrict gas supplies to Ukraine after December 31, if there is no contract.

Huge stockpiles of weapons left over from previous times in Ukraine are dangerous for the people of this country as well as for other countries,

I think it is also extremely important to revive Bulgaria's relations with Russia, Ukraine and other strategic partners.

It is clear that Russia is stronger than Ukraine, that it owns the resources and that Ukraine has no real energy sovereignty, but Russia did not succeed in making its will felt.

I will not say who won or who lost. The people of Ukraine and Russia won. Europe won because it will calmly receive gas. Common sense won.

Preserving such a situation would mean encouraging theft on the path of our gas to Europe. Therefore, all our foreign partners are warned that, while we are doing everything possible to keep up our gas exports to Europe, Ukraine would bear all the responsibility for any possible disruption of exports.

Standing day and night in the frost ... the heart of Ukraine was beating in this square. Free people all over the world ... were supporting us.

NATO cannot accept that the unconstitutional coup in Ukraine has not led to the subjugation of the whole Ukrainian nation.

I think I was written off after Wimbledon, so it hasn't been too bad since then. I'm going to give Ukraine the last chance to try to get that British No 1 spot.

The amount of gas that remains in Ukraine exceeds the originally expected amounts. This does not allo w us to fully comply with our obligations to foreign consumers.

We are increasing gas supplies to the Russian-Ukrainian border on practically a daily basis, but the shortfall in supplies to Europe is increasing daily and correspondingly the removal of gas in Ukraine is increasing. Ukraine is continuing to take gas that is being exported to Europe.

We are not only working on the construction of the North European Gas Pipeline, but also are continuing to supply natural gas through Ukraine and implement previous projects such as Blue Stream.

We are confident that Ukraine is engaged on an irreversible, European path and we support this path.

There is a very simple explanation -- Our Ukraine wants to take a break and come to terms with what happened. And there is a good way out for them: there are no complete election results yet.

The explosion affected half of the planet, but Belarus and Ukraine suffered worst of all.

Russia should recognize the freedom of countries, such as Ukraine, to choose their alliances.

The G7 and former G8 group has always viewed itself as a community of values, the annexation of Crimea, which is a blatant violation of the principles of international law, and the events in eastern Ukraine are serious violations of these common values.

The Soviet Union came apart along ethnic lines. The most important factor in this breakup was the disinclination of Slavic Ukraine to continue under a regime dominated by Slavic Russia. Yugoslavia came apart also, beginning with a brutal clash between Serbia and Croatia, here again 'nations' with only the smallest differences in genealogy; with, indeed, practically a common language. Ethnic conflict does not require great differences; small will do.

Ukraine announced plans to open Chernobyl, their nuclear disaster site, to tourists. They say it's just like Disneyland, except the 6-foot mouse is real.

We consider Turkey as a reliable partner to transit gas to third countries. Recent developments in Ukraine indicate that a new pipeline has to be laid down across the Black Sea to run parallel with Blue Stream.

We are certain that Ukraine needs profound constitutional reform. In all fairness, we can't see any other way to ensure the stable development of Ukraine but to sign a federal agreement.

There are hundreds of thousands of Scots who acknowledge English, Irish or Welsh parts of their very being. Lives and destinies are similarly intertwined in Catalonia and Spain, in Ukraine and Russia.

The price for natural gas and other energy resources has increased several times in recent years. And leaving the price for Ukraine unchanged or slightly raising it would be unreasonable.

The president of Ukraine is proposing ... that talks be concluded and a contract signed in the first 10 days of January.

There is, ... no single global strategy that works in terms of democratic openness. Sometimes it happens from the bottom up and sometimes it happens from the up down, and to be successful it usually has to work in both ways. There has to be elite that wants change, though that desire can be supported and driven by popular participation. For example in Chile, the Philippines and Korea it required pressure on leaders on top to open up their systems and those pressures couldn't have come only from civil society. In Ukraine and Georgia on the other hand there was obviously a big push from below -- pressure in both directions is necessary. There is not one single strategy that produces democratic transition.

I think, clearly, we got to work closely with China to resolve the serious problems we have, and I worry about Putin and his military adventurism in the Crimea and the Ukraine.

Today, much more than yesterday, there is a threat of a coalition between Our Ukraine and the Regions Party.

What happened today showed that Ukraine is able to conduct an honest privatization according to the law.

What happened between Russia and the Ukraine will be an important wakeup call for Europe and countries that were thinking of leaving nuclear aside.

We understand that it is cold, but it is not only cold in Ukraine. We are currently providing more gas for all our consumers, both in Russia and abroad, and we do not plan to put up with the fact that gas destined for European consumers is being used in Ukraine and is not even reaching the border. Nobody gave Ukraine the right to take more gas than the contracted volume.

We expect both Russia and Ukraine to fulfil their obligations in terms of delivering and transporting gas in full.

Even if the dispute between Russia and Ukraine continues, we can be certain to receive our gas.

Events took a turn for the worse there and Ukraine turned out to be an unsound partner in terms of economic cooperation.

Europe will support Ukraine, and Ukraine will build mutually beneficial relations with all nations, including the European Union.

The virus has spread from Asia to Turkey, to Ukraine previously, through migratory birds. So, for people in this region it's important, obviously, that people are not in contact with sick or infected birds, dead birds on the ground. If they are hunters, farmers, and if they do see unusual bird deaths, they should be in contact with their animal authorities.

These were great days and there is no longer a place left in the world that doesn't know where Ukraine is,

The situation between Russia and Ukraine is a rather (supportive) factor for oil ... as the potential for (gas) supply disruption in Europe is having a correlating effect on other energy commodities including oil.

The signing of this contract means that less gas will be left for Ukraine -- for their direct purchases. In this gas dispute, Russia gets another instrument of pressure over Ukraine.

The talks with Ukraine are over because there is no room for talks left. Now, we have no choice but to resort to a draw.

The talks with Ukraine are over because there is no room for talks left. In such bargaining ... you can't expect one to get everything and the others to get nothing. If we hand them all that they want, it's not an agreement anymore.

The suspension of the gas supply from Russia to Ukraine doesn't threaten supplies to France. With the assurances we received from Russia on the one hand, and thanks to our supply diversification policy on the other, there's no risk to France's gas supply.

The threat is still there. Avian influenza will continue to come to Ukraine ... health services must be ready and prepared to deal with people who are infected with avian flu and to be ready for the possible arrival of human-to-human transmission.

Russia and Ukraine should as quickly as possible find a sustainable compromise which does not affect gas deliveries to Europe.

Quite frankly, Russian aggression in Ukraine and its illegal occupation of Crimea remind us that we still have a good deal more work to do to guarantee the strategic vision of a Europe whole, free and at peace.

Officials could see how the tough rhetoric resonated in society during the gas war with Ukraine last week.

Deep in my heart, I still believe that the democratization of Russia and the democratization of Ukraine will proceed.

Compared to the situation in Ukraine just one year ago, I think the progress they've made is impressive, ... I wish all our trading partners demonstrated that kind of respect for the rule of law.

Arbitration is a last resort, but if Ukraine is ready to do this we are ready too.

As European markets move farther east, Ukraine becomes cost-competitive with our most competitive places.