Tymoshenko Quotes

#1. I think that Yulia Tymoshenko should prepare to resign. She understands that well.

Viktor Yanukovych

#2. But I think it's up to a local congregation to determine whether or not a marriage should be blessed of God. And it shouldn't be up to the government.

Tony Campolo

#3. Ryke shoots me a dirty (the non-sexual kind of dirty) look. "Please tell me that wasn't your high school fucking motto." This is protective Ryke coming forth. (The non-sexual kind of coming.)

Krista Ritchie

#4. Everything that I have is natural - braid, nails - I practically never use cosmetics. They often ask me in the provinces about my braid.

Yulia Tymoshenko

#5. 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

#6. 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.

Yulia Tymoshenko

#7. If you want to be friendly with puppies and everyone else because they're so cute, you better be nice to your owners.

Katie Pavlich

#8. Whenever you see a successful woman, look out for three men who are going out of their way to try to block her.

Yulia Tymoshenko

#9. Very often with an American movie, the end is very happy and you just feel good when you go out. When you go to a French movie, it's kind of like, oh!, and you can't go out; you're stuck in your chair. It goes so deeply inside of the heart.

Emmanuelle Beart

#10. 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.

Yulia Tymoshenko

#11. I am sure that all complaints regarding me were initiated from Ukraine.

Yulia Tymoshenko

#12. I stay neutral with homosexuality; I neither support nor condemn it. But if people are happy with it we must not interfere.

M.F. Moonzajer

#13. Hair is gray and the firers are burning. So many dreams on the shelf. You say I wanted you to be proud of me. I always wanted that myself.

Tori Amos

#14. 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

#15. There was, as she put it, nothing to stop me. So I followed the path of educated misfits through the ages and got a job in a bookshop.

Hari Kunzru

#16. 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

#17. 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.

Yulia Tymoshenko

#18. 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.

Yulia Tymoshenko

#19. We decided it here. Ilyich [Lenin] believed that we shouldn't leave the Whites a live banner to rally around, especially under the present difficult circumstances.

Yakov Sverdlov

#20. Great minds against themselves conspire, and shun the cure they most desire.

Nahum Tate

#21. What separates two people most profoundly is a different sense and degree of cleanliness.

Friedrich Nietzsche

#22. Two lovers, two hearts, one soul.
Only joined can they be truly complete.
Only joined can they survive the darkness.

C.L. Wilson

#23. Other men wear white suits in summer and it doesn't seem to bother them. But my white suit seems to be a little whiter than theirs. I think also that it may have something written on the back of it, although I can't find it when I take the suit off.

Robert Benchley

#24. 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

#25. I think women have to change their hairstyle from time to time.

Yulia Tymoshenko

#26. We will fight and defend my good name in the European court. We have to be strong and defend Ukraine from this authoritarianism.

Yulia Tymoshenko

#27. 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

#28. I just heard the latest joke about my hair: 'Do you know what that is on her head? It's a steering wheel to drive the state.'

Yulia Tymoshenko

#29. 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.

Yulia Tymoshenko

#30. I held a nail in place and slammed it with the hammer. Best. Chore. Ever.

Cate Tiernan

#31. The problem is not that America does not have energy. The problem is that our government - alone among the governments of the world - will not allow its own people to recover the energy that they possess.

Jim Talent