Ukrainian Quotations

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

I was an exchange student for a summer, and most of that summer was in Ukraine. I used to say 'the Ukraine' until I was there, and one of the Ukrainian college students I got to be good friends with, he said, 'Do you say I'm going back to the Texas,' and I said, 'No.' He said, 'We don't say we're going back to the Ukraine, either.'

Frankly speaking, we don't see any other way for the steady development of the Ukrainian state apart from as a federation.

I don't really know what 'American' is. I know what Ukrainian is. We're happy Slavic people. We're not Dostoyevsky Slavic people. There's this sense of 'pick it up, get your hands dirty, make the best of it, celebrate.'

I wholeheartedly support the aspirations of the Ukrainian people for a democratic, free and just society where the rule of law prevails without corruption or government violence directed against citizens.

Millions of Ukrainian hands have built a democracy, and it has stood its test,

I have been a figure skater for so long that when I stopped that competitive day-to-day grind, I didn't know what to do with myself. I don't know how the world works outside of being barked at by a Ukrainian woman and watching my weight.

Kiev will be the latest destination in Delta's expansion into the key business and leisure markets of Eastern Europe. Delta will be the only U.S. carrier to serve Kiev, and business travelers on both sides of the Atlantic, as well as friends and family of Ukrainian heritage in the United States, will look forward to this new non-stop service between New York-JFK and Kiev.

For the Ukrainian people the idea of Solidarity was symbolic,

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.

Literally 40 minutes ago, we received an official answer from the Ukrainian side. The answer said: 'We cannot sign it' and that is all.

That created a good relationship with the new Ukrainian government at all levels.

Rejection of the solutions we proposed will play a very bad havoc on the Ukrainian economy and, which is most unfortunate, on the Ukrainian people.

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

It is even more surprising when the Ukrainian foreign minister gathers Western European ambassadors and tells them that the result of the talks was a fiasco for Russia.

It is difficult not to regard this incident as an attempt by some Ukrainian forces to aggravate the situation surrounding the Black Sea Fleet through various provocations.

I strongly disagree with the statement and I am surprised that such words came out of Ukrainian foreign minister's mouth.

I think it is fair to say that both the U.S. government and the Ukrainian government share a common concern and a dedication to acting to prevent or to find out and prevent cases of proliferation. That's certainly true in this instance.

Today, the Ukrainian nation and the Ukrainian people have won. The Ukrainian people have won,

You have opened, in your country, your road to the future, ... My victory is the victory of everyone. Each person has the right to find his way and choose his colors but, dear friends, our choice is the choice of the colors of the Ukrainian flag.

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,

Understanding that a political decision had been taken, we executed it perfectly and sent the Ukrainian side... the most beneficial offers to resolve the situation.

Yesterday, we made a proposal on how to break out of this very knotty situation. We were ready to meet the Ukrainian people's needs halfway and to provide them with normal conditions of work during the winter, the most complex period of the year.

We believe the will of the Ukrainian people was heard.

That was a fraud intended to seize power, and look what they did with it. They kept creating crises which Ukrainian people struggled to overcome.

We have received a note today from the Ukrainian Foreign Ministry. It seemed very strange to us.

We have received the official response: The Ukrainian side has rejected our offer.

We have learned many important lessons from our Georgian colleagues and our Ukrainian colleagues. We are studying very closely their method for coming to power peacefully, and trying to follow their example.

Traditionally Central Asian gas is cheaper, so there won't be any shock for the Ukrainian economy.

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,

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.

I used to know Ukrainian fluently. Now I can say some things - ice cream, I love you, school, go to sleep - but I couldn't carry on a conversation.

Turkmenistan has not yet produced a list of Ukrainian goods that will be provided as payment toward gas supplies.

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,

The Russian Naval Command hopes that the Ukrainian side will act in compliance with international law and return the Yalta lighthouse to the Black Sea Fleet's hydrographic service.

Everywhere, there was Ukrainian Gypsy and folk music. That's just how it is there; you cannot escape it. But I found that I liked it.

But our proposals were turned down, which means that the Ukrainian authorities were tuned to confrontational moods from the very start.

One gets the impression that our president was more concerned about the problems of the Ukrainian people than its own leadership, since energy is vital for any country's economy.

Russia has done more than any other country to support the independent Ukrainian state, including for many years subsidising its economy through low energy prices.

We believe it will be extremely difficult, or impossible, to be more precise, for the Ukrainian authorities to explain to their people the reason for such a short-sighted policy.

This is horrible! Since I've been there, I know the Ukrainian culture. Perhaps I could serve as a translator.

In Congress, I was co-chairman of the Congressional Ukrainian Caucus, which became one of the largest international caucuses in the House.

In this situation, which is the fault of the Ukrainian side, we have been forced to start reducing pressure in the pipeline to Ukraine.

The attempts to distort the truth and to hide the facts behind blanket accusations have been undertaken at all stages of the Ukrainian crisis.

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

Their goal is obvious to us it's destabilization. We clearly realize that the authorities are considering chances to deceive the Ukrainian people once again ahead of the elections.

It has been Russia's position that the problem in relations with Ukraine must be settled at the level of the two countries' economic institutions. We have repeatedly called on the Ukrainian side not to politicize the issue.

The Ukrainian economy is completely ready for new market conditions.

The Ukrainian side believes that the price increase is unacceptable and ... a direct economic pressure against Ukraine.

It reflects an intense personal, as well as a national, gratitude for what Ukrainian Canadians have done for freedom in the country of origin of their ancestors and the example they helped set for the world,

Eighty percent of our gas transits through Ukraine, which was the motive behind our Ukrainian colleagues' decision to start to blackmail us ... But we are ready to go to the Swedish court in the event of Ukraine's unsanctioned use of gas.

There needs to be a stronger commitment in the international community to assist Ukrainian democracy.

We certainly hope that with all those things in place and the new attitude being expressed in Ukraine, as well as the new attention that's being focused by the whole world on Ukraine, that this round can truly reflect what the Ukrainian people want, and that the results will reflect what the Ukrainian people decide.

how to bring truth into the Ukrainian government and to make sure that freedom doesn't depend on Moscow, America or Europe. Our future depends just on ourselves.

However, we will not put Ukrainian people into a difficult situation.

I am very happy that our Ukrainian people rose up and fought for freedom and democracy, and I think that we will have our victory,

The massacre is a black page in Ukrainian history as much as the mass famine,

At least Germany and France have recently criticized that the Ukrainian central government has limited certain parts of the autonomy regulations to three years. They were supposed to last permanently.