Yulia Tymoshenko Quotes

I just heard the latest joke about my hair: 'Do you know what that is on her head? It's a steering wheel to drive the state.'
Yulia Tymoshenko

Her, Hair, Joke

Everything that I have is natural - braid, nails - I practically never use cosmetics. They often ask me in the provinces about my braid.
Yulia Tymoshenko

Often, Ask, Natural

I think everyone remembers how certain Russian bureaucrats used to work against the Ukrainian opposition; I think it is hard to drop old habits.
Yulia Tymoshenko

Work, Hard, Old

I think women have to change their hairstyle from time to time.
Yulia Tymoshenko

Change, Time, Women

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

Eyes, Before, Old

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

Good, Strong, Fight

Whenever you see a successful woman, look out for three men who are going out of their way to try to block her.
Yulia Tymoshenko

Men, Successful, Woman

I ask you, people who care about the soul of Ukraine, those who want to preserve the heart, the spirit and the faith of our country for future generations, to please defend it.
Yulia Tymoshenko

Faith, Future, Heart

I know the Russian political elite has got used to the Ukraine suffering from an inferiority complex, but I want this to disappear from our relationship.
Yulia Tymoshenko

Political, Suffering, Used

I never complain. I chose the road of fighting with the Ukrainian oligarchy in 1996, and have paid for this with my freedom and that of my husband, my father and my close friends.
Yulia Tymoshenko

Freedom, Husband, Father

I will get to the truth, if not in Ukrainian courts, then in international ones. I will fight to my last breath. They want to put me in prison but that won't help. My voice will be heard even louder from prison than now, and the whole world will hear me.
Yulia Tymoshenko

Truth, Fight, Help

My goal in politics from the very beginning has been, and will be, the goal of giving Ukraine a chance to finally secure a firm footing in the world as a competitive, independent and real European state.
Yulia Tymoshenko

Politics, Real, Giving

The post-Soviet mafia wove a spider's web of dirty money around the world. Where better to attack it than to start with the Ukrainian criminal heavyweights - the 'family' and its closest circle?
Yulia Tymoshenko

Family, Money, Around

Ukraine is a vital link for Europe: our energy transportation networks; our location between the European Union and Eurasia. We're the melting pot of Catholicism and Orthodox Christianity. The democracy we founded with the Orange Revolution has to be an example for other post-Soviet states.
Yulia Tymoshenko

Democracy, Revolution, Energy

Yanukovych has changed everything in Ukrainian jails - real criminals have been released, while representatives of the middle class and politically rebellious free-minded people have filled the prisons.
Yulia Tymoshenko

Real, While, Class

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Biography

Nationality: Ukrainian

Type: Politician

Born: November 27, 1960

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