Viktor Yushchenko Quotes (75 Quotes)

A cynical plan has been launched in Ukraine to destroy this administration,

High officials started directing events in favor of corporate interests then crises appeared, ... It was the last straw. I decided firmly that the decision most of all should be the following Everybody should get lost.

The decision of the court will not disrupt the election. ... We respect the court and the decision must be fulfilled.

I could not pretend that nothing was happening. Not for this did I survive a poisoning. Not for this did people stand on the square. I had to take radical steps,

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

I am setting before the new team one task -- the ability to work as one ... The moment is right when (the old team) have lost their team spirit,

At the toughest times I recalled how the children and the elderly looked at me with trustful eyes. Your faith has given me strength.

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

The regime is afraid of the people because it knows that free and fair elections will bring about its end.

democratic test for any nation.

Those who make such allegations have a responsibility to help law-enforcement agencies find the truth about all the circumstances. If they have hard facts and it is not populism, they should honestly pass this information to law-enforcement agencies,

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.

Construction of a new sarcophagus as part of international aid will be fully completed in 2010 if the results of an open tender to implement this project are summed up in time.

The Supreme Court judges, they are real heroes today,

It was a case of my honor not to use Ukraine's budget ... privatization ... official power to solve private problems,

Access to social welfare is no longer a right to all, but a privilege for the few. The criminal government is to blame for all of this.

I am asking you for the second time in three days to vote for the stability of Ukraine. Let each side draw conclusions from what happened, learn to keep its word and shun betrayal,

These people remain my friends. It is very difficult but today I must remove this Gordian knot,

that I have lived to the time when the Ukrainian president is elected not in Moscow, not in Washington, but in Ukraine.

Huge sums of money, administrative manipulation, have all been mustered to prevent the people from expressing their voice.

For the Ukrainian people the idea of Solidarity was symbolic,

No one wants conflict or misunderstandings, ... If it appears, I'm convinced it must be met with honesty and courage, and given an absolutely balanced and calm answer.

Today you saw the evidence that if Ukrainian privatization had occurred honestly, we could have received big financial opportunities to solve all kinds of concerns, including social concerns,

That is why the ... (opposition) has decided to pull out of the talks. We are stopping talks with the authorities. We will talk with them only from the position of people power.

I think if we return to the values that we talked about on (Independence) Square, but not the adventurism that structures of power had begun to carry out, I will extend my hand to anyone,

Our memory must become a warning for those who want to sow discord in our multiethnic family,

The amount we will receive for this company will be 20 percent higher than all the proceeds received in all the years of the Ukrainian privatization,

We can and must turn this page if we are friends and are prepared to look one another in the eye.

recognition, but not only recognition of my work, but actually the efforts that were made by my people in the course of many, many centuries in their attempts to get their freedom. Independence cost a lot for Ukraine, and probably freedom cost even more than that.

The famine was a crime against humanity which had perpetrators, but from the legal standpoint, no guilty parties have been found,

We must defend every chestnut tree, every tent. We must show to the authorities we are here for a long time.... There must be more and more of us here every hour.

It's time to bury the war hatchet and to forget where it lies,

We are convinced that the key area in foreign policy should be the European aspirations of the Ukraine. That is integration to the EU and integration to NATO,

We want work and we want honest jobs. Our minds and our hands will be our keep!

We must change our uranium policy ... so that we can have a full cycle of processing and production of nuclear fuel.

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

Ukraine will be reforming its energy sector because we want to integrate into Europe, ... We have conducted all the talks and reached an agreement with Azerbaijan, Kazakhstan, Poland and Georgia.

This decision puts Ukraine on the verge of civil conflict.

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

I do not welcome such steps. The court should provide legal appraisal of this move.

The plot . . . involved discussion of the ownership of one of the major Ukrainian TV channels and in order to bring about this, the prime minister acted in such a manner,

Our mothers and fathers want change. They worked all of their lives, but today live in destitution.

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

We have received information that authorities want to destroy our tent city at 3 a.m. ... At two o'clock there should be more of us than now,

This is not a government crisis, this is a crisis of certain political personalities,

I knew that there were definite conflicts between those people ... (but) I hoped that there would not be enough time for intrigues, ... Those were my hopes.

Two months ago in this square, in squares and streets all over Ukraine, millions of people came,

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 want people to feel that the government works in harmony ... (but) they lost the team spirit and faith, ... They remain my friends.

We've stepped away from the goals of the revolution,