Yulia Tymoshenko Professions : Former Prime Minister of Ukraine Born : November 27, 1960 Browse All Authors Top 18 quotes by Yulia Tymoshenko 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 steering wheels hair 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 ukraine orange europe 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 voice fighting world 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 ukraine independent real I think women have to change their hairstyle from time to time. Yulia Tymoshenko hairstyles thinking 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 block successful men 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 ukraine heart country 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 old-habits remember thinking 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 braids nails use 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 heavyweights circles dirty 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 ukraine political suffering 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 ukraine eye monsters I am sure that all complaints regarding me were initiated from Ukraine. Yulia Tymoshenko ukraine complaints 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 husband fighting father 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 ukraine fighting strong 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 jail real class If we want to save this parliament ...then we have to outline together 10-15 categorical conditions that must be met before the formation of any coalition. Yulia Tymoshenko world This is not the road to peace but to decentralization. This is a diametrically opposed process which forces us to lose territory, putin does not need the Donbass. He needs war in Ukraine. Our task in the vote is to get back to negotiations on the right road to bring peace, not the illusion of peace. Yulia Tymoshenko most-read-articles