Quotable notes

"God help him if he has said so, but I think that he has gone too far. ... He should have taken care of [such a majority] when he was the prime minister."

- Ukrainian President Leonid Kuchma commenting on November 2 on former Prime Minister Viktor Yushchenko's boast that his bloc, Our Ukraine, will receive no less than 226 seats (a majority) in the next Parliament, as quoted by the UNIAN news service and cited by RFE/RL Poland, Belarus and Ukraine Report.

Copyright © The Ukrainian Weekly, November 11, 2001, No. 45, Vol. LXIX

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