Ukraine Quotes - Page 6

• My parents are from the former Soviet Union, from Ukraine, and I grew up wanting to be a professional hockey player.

  Gabe Polsky

  Hockey, Player, Parent

  Source: collider.com

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• 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

  Dmitry Medvedev

  Needs, Debt, Want

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• We are living in a new ice age, and we need to apply the recipes of the Cold War to the Kremlin. That means isolation instead of offers of negotiation. And Ukraine should have been supplied with weapons long ago.

  Garry Kasparov

  War, Mean, Long Ago

  "Putin Needs Wars To Legitimize His Position". Interview with Erich Follath, www.spiegel.de. November 10, 2015.

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• unlike other countries, we're not skeptical at all when it comes to EU expansion. In fact, we are in favor of admitting Ukraine and Turkey. In this sense, one can hardly say that we are focusing unilaterally on our own national interests. Austria, for example, has held up the negotiations for Turkey's admission to the EU. Why am I against deeper involvement in the EU? There are several reasons for that.

  Lech Kaczynski

  Country, Turkeys, Austria

  Source: www.spiegel.de

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• America should really wonder about a President Trump, who had a campaign manager with ties to Putin, pro-putin elements in the Ukraine who had to be fired for that reason. They should wonder when Donald Trump is sitting down with Vladimir Putin, is it going to be America's bottom line, or is it going to be Donald Trump's bottom line he's going to be worried about with all of his business dealings. This would be solved if Donald Trump would release his tax returns as he's told the American public that he would do.

  Tim Kaine

  America, Ties, President

  Source: www.politico.com

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• I think, Russia is pushing against the West in general, not just the United States but the institutions of the West, the key governments in the West using a variety of tools, as well as military assault on Ukraine.

  Daniel Fried

  Military, Thinking, Keys

  Source: www.msnbc.com

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• 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.

  Bob Schaffer

  Courage, Believe, Long

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

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• The Russians are succeeding in continuing their dismemberment of Ukraine, they're succeeding in exerting enormous influence in the Middle East, which they never had before. They are succeeding - they have succeeded in interfering with our election, and we know that they continue that in the French elections and other elections. And so far they have paid a little or no penalty for all of this misbehavior.

  John McCain

  Middle East, Littles, Succeed

  Source: abcnews.go.com

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• Bankers are lynxes. To expect any gratitude from them is equivalent to attempting to move the wolves of the Ukraine to pity in the middle of winter.

  Honore de Balzac

  Gratitude, Moving, Winter

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• On issues like Ukraine, on issues like Syria, we've had very significant differences [with Russia].

  Barack Obama

  Russia, Differences, Issues

  Source: time.com

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• I commended Angela [Merkel] for her leadership along with President Hollande in working to resolve the conflict in Ukraine. We continued to stand with the people of Ukraine and for the basic principle that nations have a right to determine their own destiny and we discussed the importance of maintaining sanctions until Russia fully complies with the Minsk Agreement.

  Barack Obama

  Destiny, Russia, Agreement

  Source: time.com

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• Kiev's attempts to exert economic pressure on Donbas (region of east Ukraine) and disrupt its daily life only aggravates the situation. This is a dead-end track, fraught with a big catastrophe.

  Vladimir Putin

  Life, Track, Kiev

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• 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

  Country, Peace, Military

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

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• The most hopeful approach to peace in Ukraine is the Minsk Agreement, which includes Moscow.

  Garry Kasparov

  Agreement, Hopeful, Moscow

  "Putin Needs Wars To Legitimize His Position". Interview with Erich Follath, www.spiegel.de. November 10, 2015.

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• 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.

  Angela Merkel

  Law, Community, Principles

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• Russia can never be an empire unless it is in control of Ukraine.

  Marvin Kalb

  Russia, Empires

  Source: www.pbs.org

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• But there are realities governing what they can do. And Ukraine cannot live with the false image that somehow or another the West will come and rescue her. It's not going to happen.

  Marvin Kalb

  Reality, West, Rescue

  Source: www.pbs.org

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• It will be very important for us to continue to keep up the necessary pressure, the necessary vigilance, for there to be peace in Ukraine, our trust in the goodwill of President (Vladimir) Putin is limited. It is why we have to maintain our decision about sanctions.

  Francois Hollande

  Peace, Decision, Important

  "EU President Donald Tusk urges caution over Ukraine peace deal, cease-fire key test", www.foxnews.com. February 12, 2015.

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• If anything good is going to emerge out of this, it's going to be the result of an acceptable modus vivendi between Ukraine and Russia. The two of them will have to get together at some point. It is going to be a result that many people in the West will not like, because Russia, as the bigger power, is going to get the better of the deal. So, a lot of people will say, that's appeasement. That's this - that - it's reality.

  Marvin Kalb

  Reality, Russia, Two

  Source: www.pbs.org

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• Vladimir Putin is a Russian czar. He's kind of a mix of Peter the Great and Stalin. He's got both in his veins. And he looks out first and foremost for the national security interests of Russia. He accepts that, in Eastern Europe, that is a Russian backyard, that is a Russian sphere of influence. Ukraine lives most uncomfortably and unhappily in a Russian backyard.

  Marvin Kalb

  Russia, Europe, Backyards

  Source: www.pbs.org

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• Putin never wanted all of Ukraine. He wanted for historical purposes to take Crimea. He did. Then he wanted a part of Ukraine that he could always use to advance Russian interests. And he is now at a point where nobody in the West is shouting, hey, stop. Give us back Crimea. It's all accepted. And so he has won.

  Marvin Kalb

  Giving, Historical, Purpose

  Source: www.pbs.org

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• Clearly, Russia has lied to the world about what's going on in Ukraine. They have clearly violated the cease-fire agreements.

  Leon Panetta

  Fire, Russia, Agreement

  Source: www.spiegel.de

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• Putin doesn't need Donbass (east Ukraine). He wants to determine the fate of the world at talks with a U.S. President, putin is dreaming of getting a deal with the United States about a new-old order for the world, when the world is split on zone of influence. When you cannot interfere in someone else's zone. Not even to mention internal politics.

  Mikhail Khodorkovsky

  Dream, Fate, Order

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• Ukraine is the instrument for Russia to test the West's 'red lines'

  Lilia Shevtsova

  Russia, Lines, Tests

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• Around 2008 and again in 2013 NATO officially offered the Ukraine the opportunity to join NATO. That's something no Russian government is ever going to accept. It's right at the geopolitical heartland of Russia.

  Noam Chomsky

  Opportunity, Russia, Government

  "Anti-Intellectualism, Terrorism, and Elections in Contemporary Education: a Discussion with Noam Chomsky". Interview with Dan Falcone and Saul Isaacson, www.counterpunch.org. June 3, 2016.

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