Petro Poroshenko Quotes

External threat accelerated the formation of a modern political Ukrainian nation based on civic patriotism.

Every statesman must accept the choice of the people.

We must be united on the outside front. Even during a parliamentary campaign, even when we have very tough political confrontations within the country.

I will accept any choice of the people, because it is a democracy.

As quoted in "Прощай, немытая Россия". Главные цитаты кандидата в президенты Петра Порошенко (14 November 2014)

In Ukraine, you don't build a democracy; it already exists. You just defend it.

I'm not fighting for positions. I had in my life the highest position that Ukrainian can only dream of.

I am an ambitious person and I consider myself as still quite young and I am convinced that I still have time to realize my ambitions.

And we will all conquer the world! Because we will have a job - they [the Separatists] don't have it. We will have pensions - they don't have them. We will have the support of people - children and pensioners - they will not have it. Our children will go to schools and kindergartens, and they will sit in their basements [bomb shelters]. Because they can't do anything! That's how, that's how we're going to win this war.