I do not want my picture in your offices. The president is not an icon, an idol or a portrait. Hang your kids’ photos instead, and look at them each time you are making a decision.
No panic. We’re strong. We’re ready for anything.
All the money I have, I made with my talent.
The European Union is going to be much stronger with us, that’s for sure. Without you, Ukraine is going to be lonesome.
People don’t really believe in words. Or rather, people believe in words only for a stretch of time. Then they start to look for action.
We must become the Icelanders in soccer, the Israelis — in the defense of their native land, the Japanese — in technology and the Swiss — in the ability to live with each other in harmony, despite all the differences.
We have tasted freedom and we will not give it up.
Ukraine is fighting the invader with weapons in hands, defending its freedom and European future.
All my life I tried to do all I could so that Ukrainians laughed. That was my mission. Now I will do all I can so that Ukrainians at least do not cry any more.
History is unfair. We are not the ones who have started this war. But we are the ones who have to finish it.
There can be no strong army in a place where the authorities do not respect the people who every day sacrifice their life for the country.
We are all Ukrainians: there are no bigger or lesser, or correct or incorrect Ukrainians. From Uzhgorod to Luhansk, from Chernigiv to Simferopol, in Lviv, Kharkiv, Donetsk, Dnipro and Odesa — we are Ukrainians. And we have to be one. After all, only then we are strong.
Putin, sit at negotiating table with me. I don’t bite.
I’m not hiding. And I’m not afraid of anyone.
Peace is more important than profit.
Ukraine did not seek greatness. But Ukraine has become great.
Because freedom is not about having unshackled hands. Freedom is about having unshackled minds.
But this is not a book about how we are unable to change the past. It is a book about how we can build the future.
What will bring the end of the war? We used to say ‘peace’. Now we say ‘victory’.
Today, people often say that if there is a Third World War, it will be the last. I hope this statement is a recognition of the dangers our planet faces, rather than a prediction of our future.
Today, children and grandchildren tell their grandparents about war, and not the other way around.