Viktor Yushchenko Quotes

Through art, through people working together and building relationships and trust, people can overcome the problems of politics.

Although the troops have struck us, we throw it all behind and are glad to meet you in peace and friendship.

We know that there can never be any solid friendship between individuals, or union between communities that is worth the name, unless the parties be persuaded of each other’s honesty.

The spirit of forgiveness should prevail, and there should be tolerance and understanding among all political parties for us to move forward.

We are not enemies, but friends. We must not be enemies. Though passion may have strained, it must not break our bonds of affection. The mystic chords of memory will swell when again touched, as surely they will be, by the better angels of our nature.

A word of truth can mobilise two peoples looking for the road to reconciliation.

If you wish to be brothers, let the arms fall from your hands. One cannot love while holding offensive arms.

Love is the only force capable of transforming an enemy into friend.

The work of community, love, reconciliation, restoration is the work we cannot leave up to politicians. This is the work we are all called to do.

Social peace requires reciprocity.

What we need is not more distrust and division. What we need now is acceptance.

You win the victory when you yield to friends.

Time should make enemies and Life should make friends.

Brotherhood is not just a Bible word. Out of comradeship can come and will come the happy life for all.

The motto should not be: Forgive one another; rather understand one another.

My wife and I don't compete. We know each other's preferences, and we work to provide those for each other. One will take over when the other is faced with something he or she dislikes. That's what friends do.

I am not married yet, but I think ultimately in a good marriage it is the relationship which is the most important thing. It is not a matter of who is right and who is wrong; it is a one plus one equals more than two.

I loved September 12th. I loved the way - it's awful but, boy, did I love that day when we all came together. All the bickering stopped. All the partisan, cheap partisan warfare stopped.

I believe that we must reach our brother, never toning down our fundamental oppositions, but meeting him when he asks to be met, with a reason for the faith that is in us, as well as with a loving sympathy for them as brothers.

Two persons cannot long be friends if they cannot forgive each other's little failings.

Peace, unity and harmony!

The only thing that will redeem mankind is cooperation.

We are not going to toy with our religion or any other. Nor are we going to barter. We are here to extend our hands to build peace and harmony.

Let us make a pledge now to help Fiji through this very important next stage of its journey. We can do this by promising to be patient, calm and tolerant and by respecting the views of others, even if we disagree with them.

It is time for us to turn to each other, not on each other.