Yulia Tymoshenko

Yulia Volodymyrivna Tymoshenko (Ukrainian: Юлія Володимирівна Тимошенко, IPA: [ˈjul⁽ʲ⁾ijɐ woloˈdɪmɪr⁽ʲ⁾iu̯nɐ tɪmoˈʃɛnko]; née Hrihyan (Грігян); born 27 November 1960) is a Ukrainian politician, who served as Prime Minister of Ukraine in 2005, and again from 2007 until 2010; the first and only woman in Ukraine to hold that position. She is a member of the Verkhovna Rada as People's Deputy of Ukraine several times between 1997, and 2007, and presently as of 2014, and was First Deputy Prime Minister of Ukraine for the fuel and energy complex from 1999 to 2001. She has the degree of Candidate of Economic Sciences.

Quotes

• This is a great battle for our territory and our freedom. It’s a historic chance for the free world to kill this evil.
  • Yulia Tymoshenko on war in Ukraine: ‘It’s a chance for the free world to kill this evil’ by Luke Harding and Dan Sabbagh. June 8, 2022. Retrieved 24/11/2023.
• The other aspect of the conflict is, and here you are absolutely right, that we have people in power who have different goals despite being part of the same team. Some of them have come to power with very clear business interests.
• And power, as always, is seen as a trampoline to do big business, to straddle sources of finance.
• I want people who follow politics to understand that in politics everything is structured. Your political opponent hires experts, analysts, those people who shed a negative light on the other side.
• You know I dream of this unique moment when you get some sort of a bonus for defending your country's interests.
• Today everyone is fighting for private interests.
• I can't cry. It's my character.
• I feel like the luckiest woman in the world when I am with my family. But lately this happens so rarely that I more often feel like a well-tuned machine that makes decisions and enforces them. I spend very little time on that which you call a personal life.
• I want to see results; I have few minutes to waste.
  • Ukraine: RFE/RL Interviews Prime Minister Yuliya Tymoshenko by Maryna Pyrozhuk. August 9, 2005. Retrieved 24/11/2023.
• No one can tell us from the outside, especially the aggressor country, how we should build our lives, how we should form our constitution, how we should build the government of our country and the management of our army.
• No one has the right today to set conditions for Ukraine, that we ought to surrender part of our territory in exchange for the withdrawal from our country of someone carrying around dirty weapons.
  • Former Ukrainian PM Yulia Tymoshenko: Putin On 'Historic Mission' To Recreate The Soviet Union by Yegor Maksimov. April 2, 2022. Retrieved 24/11/2023.
• Every person throughout his or her life tries to pursue some kind of ideal. Everybody sees different ideals. Some want to make big money. Others want to make a career in science hoping to make a unique discovery for mankind.
• And things get to me sometimes, because like anyone else I, too, feel disillusioned at times. And then there are the insults... But I can endure all these things if there is a goal that is much higher than engaging in some kind of personal vendettas. Even exhaustion I can endure.
  • Yulia Tymoshenko Exclusive VOA Interview – English Translation by Zoreslav Baydyuk. March 5, 2007. Retrieved 24/11/2023.