Ukrainian Quotes:

I am sure that the Ukrainian nation deserves a better life. That is why I have voted for good changes and for stability.

- Viktor Yanukovych

topic: Better Life, Stability, Ukrainian, Good Change

I am a strong Ukrainian girl, that is why I work a lot.

- Milla Jovovich

source: "Biography/ Personal Quotes". www.imdb.com.

topic: Girl, Strong, Ukrainian

I remain convinced that for Stalin to have complete centralized power in his hands, he found it necessary to physically destroy the second-largest Soviet republic, meaning the annihilation of the Ukrainian peasantry, Ukrainian intelligentsia, Ukrainian language, and history as understood by the people; to do away with Ukraine and things Ukrainian as such. The calculation was very simple, very primitive: no people, therefore, no separate country, and thus no problem. Such a policy is Genocide in the classic sense of the word.

- James Mace

topic: Country, Simple, Ukraine, Ukrainian

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.

- Garry Kasparov

topic: Impact, Russia, Ukraine, Ukrainian

Nowhere else did repressions, purges, suppressions, and all other kinds of bureaucratic hooliganism in general acquire such horrifying scope as in Ukraine, in the struggle against powerful forces concealed in the Ukrainian masses that desired more freedom and independence.

- Leon Trotsky

topic: Powerful, Struggle, Ukraine, Ukrainian

I was a Ukrainian folk dancer in my teens, and I toured the country in 1991, shortly before the break-up of the Soviet Union.

- Vera Farmiga

topic: Country, Dancer, Unions, Ukrainian

I grew up in a Ukrainian Catholic-turned-Christian household, and that is my family's faith.

- Vera Farmiga

topic: Christian, Catholic, My Family, Ukrainian

I have this typical Ukrainian face. Even people who know my music don't recognize me most of the time, thank God.

- Neko Case

topic: People, Thank God, Faces, Ukrainian

You can see the actions that the Russians are trying to take in eastern Ukraine. And so it's so important that we take actions to deter further Russian aggression against the Ukrainian people.

- Kelly Ayotte

source: Source: www.cbsnews.com

topic: People, Important, Trying, Ukrainian

You remind me of the Siberian hunting spider, which adopts a highly convincing limp in three of its eight legs in order to attract its main prey, the so-called Samaritan squirrel, which takes pity on the spider, and then the spider jumps on it and injects the paralyzing venom, while the squirrel remains bafflingly philosophical about the whole thing. Not to be confused with the Ukrainian hunting spider, which actually has got a limp and is, as such, completely harmless, and a little bit bitter about the whole thing.

- Bill Bailey

source: "Part Troll". Documentary, Comedy, Music, 2004.

topic: Funny, Confused, Philosophical, Venom, Samaritans

The conviction of our Ukrainian nation is embedded in the pages of its history.

- Viktor Yushchenko

topic: Rehabilitation, Pages, Embedded, Ukrainian

I'm not sure about whether Ukraine will ever be joining. As long as there's a frozen conflict on Ukrainian territory, they can't possibly join. And that's probably one of the reasons why Vladimir Putin is interested in having a frozen conflict there, so that there is no border security.

- Kimberly Zisk Marten

topic: Long, Conflict, Reason, Ukrainian

I condemn the entry of a Russian so-called humanitarian convoy into Ukrainian territory without the consent of the Ukrainian authorities and without any involvement of the International Committee of the Red Cross.

- Anders Fogh Rasmussen

topic: Territory, Red, Humanitarian, Red Cross, Ukrainian

I hope that the responsible figures in the Ukrainian leadership will not hinder soldiers in the Ukrainian army from putting down their weapons.

- Vladimir Putin

topic: Leadership, Army, Soldier, Ukrainian

I do not want to return to the Ukraine of the 1990s and the time of privatization. Ninety-eight percent of Ukrainian companies obey the laws.

- Viktor Yushchenko

source: Source: www.spiegel.de

topic: Eight, Ukraine, Law, Privatization, Ukrainian

I didn't grow up watching film but as a Ukrainian-American, music and stories and dance are crucial.

- Vera Farmiga

topic: Dance, Growing Up, Stories, Ukrainian

I guess the main thing that came out of the Panama Papers was that Ukrainian President Poroshenko had promised to divest of his chocolate company and instead, he simply moved it into an offshore account. And on the very day that he was increasing the attacks on the eastern Donbass region of Ukraine, the export sector, he was signing documents to conceal his own money offshore. So the exposé of the Panama money laundering has hit some of the dictators that America is protecting and promoting.

- Michael Hudson

source: Source: www.counterpunch.org

topic: Ukraine, America, Chocolate, Money Laundering, Offshore

Far too often the Ukrainian issue is posed as a showdown: whether Ukraine joins the East or the West. But if Ukraine is to survive and thrive, it must not be either side's outpost against the other - it should function as a bridge between them.

- Henry A. Kissinger

source: "Kissinger: Ukraine Must Be Bridge Between East And West" by Henry A. Kissinger, www.huffingtonpost.com. March 6, 2014.

topic: Leadership, Reality, Bridges, Ukrainian, Showdowns

The West appears to have decided for the Ukrainian people what their choice is. The EU does not condemn violent actions in Ukraine which are punishable in the West.

- Sergey Lavrov

topic: Ukraine, People, Choices, Ukrainian

The Ukrainian people should not be coerced. Make no mistake: the US stands together with the Ukrainians aspiring for democracy.

- John F. Kerry

topic: Mistake, People, Democracy, Ukrainian

The Ukrainian opposition should adopt democratic unity as its main principle, and it also must have one leader.

- Zbigniew Brzezinski

topic: Leader, Unity, Principles, Ukrainian

Putin saw the Ukrainian revolution as a challenge to him personally, and I think that's why he, in fact, over-reacted. I think his occupation of Crimea and then annexation for him was actually a mistake from Russia's point of view. And then his invasion of Eastern Ukraine was also a mistake. He imagined that he would invade Eastern Ukraine and then eventually split the country in half, and he discovered that in fact, Russian-speaking Ukrainians are not Russians, and they didn't support him.

- Anne Applebaum

source: Source: www.politico.com

topic: Ukrainian

I always lived in a multilingual society (Polish-Ukrainian, German-Ukrainian, English-Ukrainian), and was open to outside linguistic influences. I think it was within three years of coming to the US that I started writing in English, although purely for myself, not trying to get it published. Living in America, I was constantly in touch with English, and Ukrainian was for me a private language.

- Yuriy Tarnawsky

topic: Writing, Thinking, Years, Ukrainian

My first passion was running: I excelled at that starting till the end of the high school. I pretty much cover about 20 miles a night on stage. I basically rechanneled all the athleticism and adrenaline, and everything that's exciting about sports into music. That was my secret weapon, because in Ukrainian punk rock scene - where everything was very gloomy - being athletic was not cool. I didn't publicize anything about my sport past, but I rolled in onstage with a background nobody had, and I became instantly recognized as the wildest performer in the punk-rock scene.

- Eugene Hutz

topic: Sports, Running, School, Ukrainian

I went to elementary school in Goodeve, Saskatchewan, a small Ukrainian town. I played a lot of hockey, a lot of ball. Because of that I fit in - everyone wanted me on their team. The guys knew I was a hunter, and they were farmers. They just accepted that. I have lifelong friends from Goodeve.

- Perry Bellegarde

topic: Team, School, Hockey, Ukrainian

Crimea has always been and remains Russian, as well as Ukrainian, Crimean-Tatar, Greek (after all, there are Greeks living there) and German - and it will be home to all of those peoples. As for state affiliation, the people living in Crimea made their choice; it should be treated with respect, and Russia cannot do otherwise. I hope that our neighbouring and distant partners will ultimately treat this the same way, since in this case, the highest criteria used to establish the truth can only be the opinion of the people themselves.

- Vladimir Putin

topic: Home, Russia, People, Crimea, Ukrainian

We do believe the current Ukrainian authorities are illegitimate. They cannot be legitimate as they do not have a national mandate for running the country, which speaks for itself. At the same time, we do not refuse to deal with them. We stay in touch at the ministerial level.

- Vladimir Putin

topic: Running, Country, Believe, Ukrainian

The Terror-Famine of 1932-33 was a dual-purpose by product of collectivization, designed to suppress Ukrainian nationalism and the most important concentration of prosperous peasants at one throw.

- Norman Davies

topic: Ukraine, Important, Purpose, Ukrainian

Two years after my mother died, my father fell in love with a glamorous blonde Ukrainian divorcée. He was eighty-four and she was thirty-six. She exploded into our lives like a fluffy pink grenade, churning up the murky water, bringing to the surface a sludge of sloughed-off memories, giving the family ghosts a kick up the backside.

- Marina Lewycka

source: "A Short History of Tractors in Ukrainian". Book by Marina Lewycka, March 31, 2005.

topic: Mother, Memories, Father, Grenade, Churning

Each year, members of Canada’s Ukrainian community, Parliamentarians and others commemorate the Holodomor at gatherings across the country. In doing so, we honour the memory of those who perished and the legacy of those who survived, including many who found refuge in Canada. It is by remembering the tragedies and atrocities of the past that we can equip ourselves to prevent them from happening again. That is why this national tour, which will reach Canadians of all ages and backgrounds, is an important initiative

- Jason Kenney

topic: Ukrainian

Though there is growing division among the Ukrainian military ranks as to loyalty in this revolution, the possibility of violence looms over the entire situation.

- Bob Schaffer

source: "Go Orange!". National Review Interview, www.nationalreview.com. November 30, 2004.

topic: Loyalty, Military, Revolution, Ukrainian

My mother is Ukrainian. She immigrated to the U.S. from Canada as a child.

- Bob Schaffer

source: "Go Orange!". National Review Interview, www.nationalreview.com. November 30, 2004.

topic: Mother, Children, Canada, Ukrainian

The main thing is that the 'C' is silent, so it kind of starts with a 'Z.' Z-O-O-K-RIE. It's Ukrainian, on my dad's side.

- Matt Czuchry

source: "Biography/ Personal Quotes". www.imdb.com.

topic: Dad, Sides, Kind, Ukrainian

Yanukovych has changed everything in Ukrainian jails - real criminals have been released, while representatives of the middle class and politically rebellious free-minded people have filled the prisons.

- Yulia Tymoshenko

topic: Real, Class, Jail, Representatives, Ukrainian

In the Western Church to which I belong, priests cannot be married as in the Byzantine, Ukrainian, Russian or Greek Catholic Churches. In those Churches, the priests can be married, but the bishops have to be celibate. They are very good priests.

- Pope Francis

source: "In 2012 interview, Pope Francis (then-Cardinal Bergoglio) reveals secret of celibacy". Interview with Rabbi Abraham Skorka, aleteia.org. March 18, 2013.

topic: Catholic, Greek, Church, Ukrainian, Byzantine

Ukraine is going through a difficult time. There is nothing extraordinary of the resignation of the Ukrainian government ahead of the upcoming parliamentary elections

- Vladimir Putin

topic: Government, Ukraine, Election, Ukrainian

The post-Soviet mafia wove a spider's web of dirty money around the world. Where better to attack it than to start with the Ukrainian criminal heavyweights - the 'family' and its closest circle?

- Yulia Tymoshenko

topic: Dirty, Circles, Heavyweights, Dirty Money, Ukrainian

Ukrainian business must really embrace global competition. We need to understand that competition for resources and clients is not with competitors from across the street or from another city, but with millions of businesses around the world.

- Victor Pinchuk

topic: Cities, Competition, World, Ukrainian

I am the first prime minister of this country of neither English nor French origin. So I determined to bring about a Canadian citizenship that knew no hyphenated consideration....I'm very happy to be able to say that in the House of Commons today in my party we have members of Italian, Dutch, German, Scandinavian, Chinese and Ukrainian origin and they are all Canadians.

- John Diefenbaker

topic: Country, Party, Italian, Scandinavians, Ukrainian

I have never allowed anti-Russian rhetoric in Ukrainian policy toward such a strategic partner like Russia. This is the first point. I never went against the interests of the Ukrainian state and the Ukrainian people.

- Viktor Yanukovych

topic: Russia, People, Firsts, Ukrainian

I will get to the truth, if not in Ukrainian courts, then in international ones. I will fight to my last breath. They want to put me in prison but that won't help. My voice will be heard even louder from prison than now, and the whole world will hear me.

- Yulia Tymoshenko

topic: Fighting, Voice, World, Ukrainian

I never complain. I chose the road of fighting with the Ukrainian oligarchy in 1996, and have paid for this with my freedom and that of my husband, my father and my close friends.

- Yulia Tymoshenko

topic: Husband, Father, Fighting, Ukrainian

I think everyone remembers how certain Russian bureaucrats used to work against the Ukrainian opposition; I think it is hard to drop old habits.

- Yulia Tymoshenko

topic: Thinking, Old Habits, Remember, Ukrainian

I was always creatively stubborn, adverse to editing by others, and wanted to use the kind of Ukrainian we spoke among ourselves rather than the more artificial prescribed literary Ukrainian. The problem was the greatest in prose, where editors would change my language because "it sounded better this way." My poetry they left alone probably out of deference to that hallowed genre.

- Yuriy Tarnawsky

topic: Editing, Editors, Use, Ukrainian

Putin imagined it would be different. So, like many Russian leaders before him, he imagined that Ukraine was basically Russia, but they speak with a funny accent. Actually, it's not Russia; it has a different identity. It has a very different language. Russians don't automatically understand Ukrainian. And, in particular, the way Ukraine has developed over the last two decades is different from the way Russia has developed.

- Anne Applebaum

source: Source: www.politico.com

topic: Leader, Identity, Different, Ukrainian

Trump wants to make peace; he wants to see Ukrainian conflict resolved; he wants to see Ukraine get its territory back. It's crystal clear. With Putin, I think we see glimmers; we see a reason to think maybe they do. But they have to make the choice to do that, and they can very well choose the opposite.

- Kurt Volker

source: Source: www.politico.com

topic: Thinking, Choices, Conflict, Ukrainian

President Vladimir Putin continues to call for new peace plans as his troops roll through the Ukrainian countryside and he absolutely ignores every agreement that his country has signed in the past and he has signed recently, we, the United States, and Europe as a whole, have to stand with Ukraine at this moment. Ukraine needs our financial assistance and support as it pursues reforms and even in the face, in the face of this military onslaught.

- Joe Biden

source: "Putin's 'little green men' aiding Ukrainian separatists, says Biden", www.foxnews.com. February 06, 2015.

topic: Country, Peace, Military, Financial Assistance, Ukrainian

I think that most people don't think in terms of an American revolution, they think in terms of a Russian revolution, or even a Ukrainian revolution. But the idea of an American revolution does not occur to most people. And when I came down to the movement milieu seventy-five years ago, the black movement was just starting, and the war in Europe had brought into being the "Double V for Victory" [campaign]: the idea was that we ought to win democracy abroad with democracy at home. And that was the beginning of an American revolution, and most people don't recognize that.

- Grace Lee Boggs

source: Source: www.guernicamag.com

topic: War, Home, Thinking, Ukrainian, Russian Revolution

The international repercussions were shattering to some extent - there is no intention to repeat operations of such kind in the future.[Viktor] Yanukovych's electoral victory clearly demonstrated that there are no pro-Russian politicians in the Ukraine, just Ukrainian politicians.

- Garry Kasparov

source: Source: www.rferl.org

topic: Ukraine, Victory, Kind, Shattering, Ukrainian