Ukraine Quotes - Page 3

• I will work for Bulgaria's strategic choice - Bulgaria's membership in the European Union and NATO. I think it is also extremely important to revive Bulgaria's relations with Russia, Ukraine and other strategic partners.

  Georgi Parvanov

  Thinking, Russia, Choices

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• However, if Moscow regains control over Ukraine, with its 52 million people and major resources as well as access to the Black Sea, Russia automatically again regains the wherewithal to become a powerful imperial state, spanning Europe and Asia.

  Zbigniew Brzezinski

  Powerful, Russia, Europe

  Zbigniew Brzezinski (2007). “The Grand Chessboard”, p.49, Basic Books

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• Ukraine announced plans to open Chernobyl, their nuclear disaster site, to tourists. They say it's just like Disneyland, except the 6-foot mouse is real.

  Conan O'Brien

  Real, Feet, Tourists

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• Today in Ukraine, many people struggle to survive, older ones often see the breakdown of the Soviet system as a loss of stability and security for average people, and therefore a certain hostility to quickly acquired wealth is from their point of view quite understandable at the first look.

  Victor Pinchuk

  Struggle, Loss, Views

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• 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

  Strong, Fighting, Names

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• I wouldn't go to war over Ukraine.

  Benjamin Carson

  War

  Source: www.foxnews.com

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• First, the constitution [of Ukraine] has to be reformed. Only then can confidence building and border security follow.

  Vladimir Putin

  Firsts, Borders, Border Security

  Source: www.businessinsider.com

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• I do not support Putin against Europe. This is a caricature. I support a federalist Ukraine. The EU poured fuel on the fire by proposing an economic partnership to a country known to look half to the East and half to the West.

  Marine Le Pen

  Country, Fire, Europe

  Source: www.eunews.it

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• Right at the beginning of all of this [Ukraine to join NATO], serious senior statesmen, people like [George] Kennan for example and others warned that the expansion of NATO to the east is going to cause a disaster. I mean, it's like having the Warsaw Pact on the Mexican border. It's inconceivable. And others, senior people warned about this, but policymakers didn't care. Just go ahead.

  Noam Chomsky

  Senior, Mean, Mexican Border

  Source: www.counterpunch.org

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• We have for decades now, and I've dealt with the Russians for 35 years, we have from time to time been able to, even though we have different interests, to align them. That alignment has become more and more difficult under Putin. You see that in Ukraine, you see it in the Middle East. To an extent where he actually defines Russian success as thwarting the United States.

  Ashton Carter

  Years, Middle East, United States

  Source: abcnews.go.com

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• Okay, NATO expanded to East Berlin and East Germany. Under [Bill] Clinton NATO expanded further, to the former Russian satellites. In 2008 NATO formally made an offer to Ukraine to join NATO. That's unbelievable. I mean, Ukraine is the geopolitical heartland of Russian concern, quite aside from historical connections, population and so on.

  Noam Chomsky

  Mean, East Germany, East Berlin

  Source: www.counterpunch.org

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• I think that there is a bipartisan consensus that's incorrect that we should have the whole world be in NATO. For example, if we had Ukraine and Georgia in NATO - and this is something McCain and the other neocons have advocated for - we would be at war now because Russia has invaded both of them.

  Rand Paul

  War, Thinking, Russia

  Source: www.realclearpolitics.com

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• California, like anywhere else on Earth, should have the right to secede whether the United States likes it or not. The preferences of the other 49 states and Washington DC is not relevant. That was the position of the United States government on Yugoslavia and other places around the world but not on Ukraine. However, morality and the law as I understand it are that any people should have the right to leave, just as explained in the initial words of the US Declaration of Independence.

  David Swanson

  Government, Should Have, Law

  Source: www.counterpunch.org

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• Without Ukraine, Russia's imperial aspirations are essentially nostalgia, but it's not a real policy.

  Zbigniew Brzezinski

  Real, Russia, Nostalgia

  Source: www.nytimes.com

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• I'm very pleased this military engagement together with a political road map that we developed, we were able to continue. We want to bring about a political solution there. We worked very closely together [with Barack Obama] on the issue of annexation of Crimea and Russia's attempt to actually conquer Ukraine and actually, they did so, conquer part of the territory. We tried to come to a peaceful settlement here on this.

  Angela Merkel

  Military, Russia, Issues

  Source: time.com

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• With all of these strong ties to NATO, Ukraine is a mess. Crimea has been taken. Don't blame Donald Trump for that.

  Donald Trump

  Strong, Taken, Ties

  Source: abcnews.go.com

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• John Kerry tried to work with the Russians on Syria, and the man was honorable, because he was trying to do the right thing, and frankly, playing a very weak hand, a hand that was weak not because of him, okay. He did the best he could, but I will say this to his enormous credit: he never offered a dirty deal. You can have Ukraine if you only help us out on Syria. Never - he never did that.

  Daniel Fried

  Dirty, Men, Hands

  Source: www.politico.com

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• Russia has long recognized the borders of today's Ukraine. By and large, we have completed our talks on the border. Now we have to deal with the demarcation, but this is a technical issue.

  Vladimir Putin

  Issues, Russia, Long

  Source: russialist.org

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• There are complicated processes going on in society in the Crimea. There are problems of the Crimean Tatars, the Ukrainian population, the Russian population, the Slavic population in general, but this is Ukraine's domestic political problem.

  Vladimir Putin

  Political, Population, Complicated

  Source: russialist.org

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• The West's sanctions are not aimed at helping Ukraine, but at geo-politically pushing Russia back. They are foolish and are merely harming both sides.

  Vladimir Putin

  Russia, West, Pushing

  Source: www.businessinsider.com

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• The constitutional reform is supposed to give autonomy to eastern Ukraine and to be adopted by the end of 2015. This has not happened, and the year is over. That's not Russia's fault.

  Vladimir Putin

  Years, Russia, Giving

  Source: www.businessinsider.com

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• A Russian citizen who worked for the [Donald] Trump campaign manager in Ukraine, worked for Paul Manafort when Manafort was working in Ukraine, that Russian citizen visited the United States around the time of the Republican convention.

  Rachel Maddow

  Campaigns, Citizens, United States

  Source: www.msnbc.com

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• The Chancellor [Angela Merkel] and the European partners would be well-advised to address the problems in eastern Ukraine more thoroughly. Maybe they have too many domestic problems of their own at the moment.

  Vladimir Putin

  Addresses, Would Be, Problem

  Source: www.businessinsider.com

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• I guess the main thing that came out of the Panama Papers was that Ukrainian President Poroshenko had promised to divest of his chocolate company and instead, he simply moved it into an offshore account. And on the very day that he was increasing the attacks on the eastern Donbass region of Ukraine, the export sector, he was signing documents to conceal his own money offshore. So the exposé of the Panama money laundering has hit some of the dictators that America is protecting and promoting.

  Michael Hudson

  America, Chocolate, President

  Source: www.counterpunch.org

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• What I'd do is not have USAID and the National Endowment for Democracy working with U.S. taxpayers' money to knock off an elected government in Ukraine, which is what they did. I wouldn't try to force the people of Ukraine into a deal with NATO against their interest or into a deal with the European Union, which is against their economic interest.

  Dennis Kucinich

  Government, People, Democracy

  "Democratic presidential candidate accuses US of provoking Ukrainian crisis". www.rt.com. March 5, 2014.

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