Petro Poroshenko

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

"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."

"The main guarantor of Ukraine is the Armed Forces of Ukraine."

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

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

"Every statesman must accept the choice of the people."

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

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