Quotes from Viktor Yushchenko

Ukraine must once again be revered and respected by its citizens as well as the East and the West.

At the toughest times I recalled how the children and the elderly looked at me with trustful eyes. Your faith has given me strength.

It's time to bury the war hatchet and to forget where it lies

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.

The regime is afraid of the people because it knows that free and fair elections will bring about its end.

We can and must turn this page if we are friends and are prepared to look one another in the eye.

Our mothers and fathers want change. They worked all of their lives, but today live in destitution.

There is only one conflict in Ukraine today and it is between the regime and the people.

The conviction of our Ukrainian nation is embedded in the pages of its history.

We want work and we want honest jobs. Our minds and our hands will be our keep!