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"I have in every way that I could have punished myself, I have punished myself. After my release, I will go to Ukraine and work hard and honestly in order to clear my name."
Three days ago
"I have in every way that I could have punished myself, I have punished myself. After my release, I will go to Ukraine and work hard and honestly in order to clear my name."

Pavlo Lazarenko, ex-prime minister, when pleading for a significantly reduced sentence in U.S. district court.

"It’s the only way to discipline Ukrainians, to make some adults quit and to prevent young kids from ever starting to smoke."
November 15
"It’s the only way to discipline Ukrainians, to make some adults quit and to prevent young kids from ever starting to smoke."

Mykola Polishshuk, the former health minister, criticizing President Victor Yushchenko's veto of a tobacco tax hike.

"Western Ukraine, by the way, voted for President [Victor Yushchenko]. And to kill those people by political means, the same people who voted for him, in incomprehensible for a normal person."
November 11
"Western Ukraine, by the way, voted for President [Victor Yushchenko]. And to kill those people by political means, the same people who voted for him, in incomprehensible for a normal person."

Prime Minister Yulia Tymoshenko during a cabinet meeting on Nov. 11 speaking about the president's decision to cancel a government resolution guaranteeing credit for the purchase of medical equipment.

November 10
"The Health Ministry has asked the World Health Organization to allocate 15 million doses of vaccine free of charge to fight the flu pandemic."

First Deputy Health Minister Vasyl Lazoryshynets, on Nov. 10, announcing government's desire to conduct mass vaccinations against the flu.

"A society that puts equality ... ahead of freedom will end up with neither."
November 09
"A society that puts equality ... ahead of freedom will end up with neither."

Milton Friedman, U.S. economist, who won the 1976 Nobel Prize for economics. Friedman, who was one of the most influential economists of the past century and a champion of free markets, died at the age of 94 on Nov. 16, 2006

"Now we are in a special period, so certainly we have to wait for the result of the election to be able to resume our work with the government."
November 08
"Now we are in a special period, so certainly we have to wait for the result of the election to be able to resume our work with the government."

Dominique Strauss-Kahn, International Monetary Fund chief, suggesting that Ukraine will not get any more lending from the IMF until after the Jan. 17 presidential election.

"We have rather harsh controversies, but those are not between the two societies or the two states. And frankly speaking, there is only one person who is giving rise to the controversies and all the issues – the current president of Ukraine."
November 07
"We have rather harsh controversies, but those are not between the two societies or the two states. And frankly speaking, there is only one person who is giving rise to the controversies and all the issues – the current president of Ukraine."

Russian President Dmitry Medvedev, blaming his Ukrainian counterpart, Victor Yushchenko, for poor Ukraine-Russia relations.

"Then you get a Ukraine thing, where some countries have suddenly been ambushed by the pandemic and have gone over the top in their response."
November 06
"Then you get a Ukraine thing, where some countries have suddenly been ambushed by the pandemic and have gone over the top in their response."

Angus Nicoll, influenza coordinator at the European Centre for Disease Prevention and Control, saying Ukraine overreacted in closing schools and banning public meetings for three weeks from Oct. 30 after it confirmed its first H1N1 death.

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