Ukraine Quotes - Page 5

• At this point the question of Ukraine is the most important. The situation in Ukraine is very bad. If we don't take steps now to improve the situation, we may lose Ukraine. The objective should be to transform Ukraine , in the shortest period of time, into a real fortress of the U.S.S.R.

  Joseph Stalin

  Real, Important, Steps

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• It is not democracy to send in billions of dollars to push regime change overseas. It isn't democracy to send in the NGOs to re-write laws and the constitution in places like Ukraine. It is none of our business.

  Ron Paul

  Writing, Law, Democracy

  "US 'Democracy Promotion' Destroys Democracy Overseas". ronpaulinstitute.org. March 23, 2014.

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• I'll tell what reckless is. What reckless is is calling [Bashar] Assad a reformer. What reckless is allowing Russia to come into Crimea and Ukraine. What reckless is is inviting Russia into Syria to team with Iran. That is reckless. And the reckless people are the folks in the White House right now. Barack Obama and Hillary Clinton are the reckless people.

  Chris Christie

  Team, Russia, Iran

  "Rush Transcript second debate: CNN Facebook Republican Presidential Debate", cnnpressroom.blogs.cnn.com. December 16, 2015.

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• God has left me alive, so it looks like I'm needed for something ... As soon as there is a possibility for me to return, I will return and will do everything I can to make life better in Ukraine. And today, the main task is to stop the war.

  Viktor Yanukovych

  Life, War, Tasks

  "Britain and US vow to take action against Russia if conflict in Ukraine continues" by Karen Rockett, www.mirror.co.uk. February 21, 2015.

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• We do have evidence the [Donald] Trump campaign was working to sideline Russian intervention in Ukraine as a campaign issue.

  Rachel Maddow

  Issues, Campaigns, Trump

  Source: www.msnbc.com

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• Nixon urged Clinton to maintain his relationship with Yeltsin but make contact with other democrats in Russia. He warned Clinton away from some ultranationalists and toward those interested in liberty and reform. He pressed Clinton to replace his ambassador in Kiev and concentrate future U.S. economic aid on Ukraine, where it would matter most.

  Nancy Gibbs

  Russia, Liberty, Kiev

  Nancy Gibbs, Michael Duffy (2012). “The Presidents Club: Inside the World's Most Exclusive Fraternity”, p.428, Simon and Schuster

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• There had been a proposed plank for the platform that said the Republican Party believed the United States should support Ukraine in any way that we could up to and including providing them weapons, so they could fight off Russian incursions into Ukraine.That was the proposed plank in the Republican Party platform. The [Donald] Trump folks didn`t care about anything else.

  Rachel Maddow

  Party, Fighting, Support

  Source: www.msnbc.com

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• we are dealing with a return to what might be a far more normal relationship between the West and Russia. Russia is what it is that we see. It's not dressed up in its birthday costume. It is what it is. It regards its national interests as important enough to fight for. And the difference on the whole Ukraine situation is that the Russians are prepared to fight for their position on Ukraine, and the West is not.

  Marvin Kalb

  Fighting, Russia, Differences

  Source: www.pbs.org

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• After the Russian army invaded the nation of Georgia, Senator Obama's reaction was one of moral indecision and equivalence, the kind of response that would only encourage Russia's Putin to invade Ukraine next.

  Sarah Palin

  Army, Russia, Georgia

  “Palin on Ukraine: I called it” by Aaron Blake, www.washingtonpost.com. March 3, 2014.

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• 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

  Eye, Monsters, Criminals

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• There is no appeasing Putin. Frankly, there is no directly stopping him, either. It is only possible to raise the costs to him of his war, including the military costs. If we won'€™t provide military materiel to Ukraine now, we deserve the contempt with which Putin regards us.

  Rich Lowry

  Military, War, Stopping

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• [Vladimir] Putin spoke unabashedly about the importance of national sovereignty in Syria, a concept apparently near and dear to his heart, unless it comes to the sovereignty of Georgia, Ukraine or any other country in which he intervenes. Then he offered his cooperation, but without making any concrete concessions at all. And he didn't have to, either. He knows what he can rely on. He has assets that are more valuable than words: He has tanks in Ukraine, fighter jets in Syria - and Barack Obama in the White House.

  Garry Kasparov

  Country, Heart, White

  Source: www.spiegel.de

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• People power. It has no limits. In politics, every politician in Ukraine is afraid of that. They know, if people go to the streets, nobody feels safe.

  Vitali Klitschko

  Motivation, People, Safe

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• There is not an inherent contradiction between a Ukraine that has longstanding historic and cultural ties to Russia, and a modern Ukraine that wants to integrate more closely with Europe.

  Susan Rice

  Reality, Russia, Europe

  "Meet the Press" with David Gregory, www.nbcnews.com. February 23, 2014.

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• I'm too fast, too sexy and too talented to be blown away by a large, slow robot from the Ukraine.

  David Haye

  Sexy, Robots, Blown Away

  "David Haye targets Vitali Klitschko but refuses to fight in Ukraine". www.theguardian.com. September 25, 2012.

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• Part of what the [British] dossier says is this, quote, "The operation", meaning the effort to influence our election, "that has been conducted with the full knowledge and support of [Donald] Trump and senior members of his campaign team. In return, in return, the Trump team has agreed to sideline Russian intervention in Ukraine as a campaign issue."

  Rachel Maddow

  Senior, Team, Issues

  Source: www.msnbc.com

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• Hillary Clinton said her number one priority was a reset with Russia. That reset resulted in the invasion of Ukraine.

  Mike Pence

  Russia, Numbers, Priorities

  Source: www.politico.com

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• I think Putin wants to recreate as much of the Soviet Union as he can through a variety of different means. He's invaded parts of Georgia, took Crimea, southeastern Ukraine, bases in other countries.

  David Petraeus

  Country, Mean, Thinking

  Source: abcnews.go.com

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• The issues for journalism and journalists, we see obvious places where presentation is very different in a digital space from traditional print. If you go to a New York Times homepage, you cannot get to a story about the Ukraine without a click-off on a banner ad or a slide show. They're not alone in that - you think you're clicking on a video about a news event and you have a 30-second ad that you have to watch before you can get to it.

  Norman Pearlstine

  New York, Thinking, Issues

  Source: wwd.com

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• President Bush Sr. and Secretary Baker, way back when, told Gorbachev, "We are not going to advance NATO into Eastern Europe. We're not going to - we're not going to advance NATO into East Germany, if you allow the unification of Germany." Where is that pledge? Where is the logic behind a military alliance, devised in the time of communism, before the Berlin Wall fell, now being in the Ukraine, in Poland, in Estonia, in Latvia and Lithuania? I don't understand.

  Rashid Khalidi

  Wall, Military, Europe

  Source: www.democracynow.org

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• 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

  Eight, Law, Want

  Source: www.spiegel.de

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• From Ukraine to Syria, he [Vladimir Putin] is behaving like the world's new general and celebrating victories, while the American president sits on the sidelines and Europe sleeps. The West's behavior toward Putin is political and moral capitulation.

  Garry Kasparov

  Sleep, Europe, Political

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

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• I believe it is wrong to give Moscow a rebate on Ukraine sanctions because of Syria.

  Martin Schulz

  Believe, Giving, Moscow

  Source: www.spiegel.de

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• The Soviet Union came apart along ethnic lines. The most important factor in this breakup was the disinclination of Slavic Ukraine to continue under a regime dominated by Slavic Russia. Yugoslavia came apart also, beginning with a brutal clash between Serbia and Croatia, here again 'nations' with only the smallest differences in genealogy; with, indeed, practically a common language. Ethnic conflict does not require great differences; small will do.

  Daniel Patrick Moynihan

  Breakup, Russia, Yugoslavia

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• I think, clearly, we got to work closely with China to resolve the serious problems we have, and I worry about Putin and his military adventurism in the Crimea and the Ukraine.

  Bernie Sanders

  Military, Thinking, Worry

  Bernie Sanders during Democratic Presidential Candidates Debate at the University of New Hampshire in Durham, New Hampshire, www.nytimes.com. February 5, 2016.

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