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 daring attempt to make a great change in existing conditions, every lofty vision of new possibilities for the human race, has been labeled Utopian.
We are here to change the world with small acts of thoughtfulness done daily rather than with one great breakthrough.
We are either going to have a future where women lead the way to make peace with the Earth or we are not going to have a human future at all.
We're never going to scare people into living more sustainably! We have to be able to demonstrate just how dynamic and aspirational such a world could be
Had it not been for you, I should have remained what I was when we first met, a prejudiced, narrow-minded being, with contracted sympathies and false knowledge, wasting my life on obsolete trifles, and utterly insensible to the privilege of living in this wondrous age of change and progress.
How much shall I be changed, before I am changed!
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