Please, please stop saying that Ukraine is a corrupt country, because from now, it's not true. We want to change this image.
Interpretation
The quote expresses a desire to change perceptions about Ukraine's corruption.
Volodymyr Zelensky is urging people to stop labeling Ukraine as a corrupt nation, emphasizing that significant changes have been made to improve the country's image. This statement reflects a broader commitment to reform and a determination to alter both internal and external perceptions of Ukraine's governance and integrity.
In practice
In a speech addressing international leaders, one might use this quote to advocate for Ukraine's ongoing reform efforts.
I will not agree to go to war in the Donbass. I know there are a lot of hotheads, especially those who hold rallies and say, 'Let's go fight and win it all back!' But at what price? What is the cost? It's another story of lives and land. And I won't do it.
Let's build a country of opportunities, where everybody is equal before the law and where the rules of the game are honest and transparent, and the same for everyone.
When Ukrainians and Israelis speak to each other, each side respects the other.
If there is no Ukrainian strong army, there will be no Ukraine, and that will be the case when everyone will understand... it's not the war in Ukraine, it's the war in Europe. We are defending our country, our land. We are not attacking anyone, because that is immoral.
People don't really believe in words. Or rather, people believe in words only for a stretch of time. Then they start to look for action.
I would never want Ukraine to be a piece on the map, on the chessboard of big global players, so that someone could toss us around, use us as cover, as part of some bargain.
Every seven years, I sit down and make a whole new plan.
While law-abiding Muslims are forced to hide in their homes, and animal-rights activists are labeled as terrorists for undercover filming of abusive treatment at factory farms, right-wing hate groups are free to organize, parade, arm themselves to the hilt and murder with chilling regularity. Itβs time for our society to confront this very real threat.
There is a miracle in every new beginning
The world is waiting for new saints, ecstatic men and women who are so deeply rooted in the love of God that they are free to imagine a new international order.
If you can just see all the children of the world as your own, all the mothers of the world as you are, we can make a huge difference.
You want to change your life? Control the only thing you can control: the meaning you give something.
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