Alexander Lukashenko Quotes

It's better to be a dictator than gay.

I don't really understand what a dictator is, but on the other hand I sometimes, in a nice way, envy myself," he said. "I am the last and only dictator in Europe and indeed there are none anywhere else in the world.

Whoever was shouting about dictatorship there... when I heard that, I thought: it's better to be a dictator than gay.

If someone is a lesbian, it's man's fault.

We have rigged the latest election. 93.5 per cent have voted for Lukashenko. But they say it is not a European outcome. We have made it 86 per cent.

My position and the state will never allow me to become a dictator, but an authoritarian style of rule is characteristic of me, and I have always admitted it. You need to control the country, and the main thing is not to ruin people's lives.

We do not need an imported system for falsifying elections! We will create our own, one run by the state!

A thug only understands you when you speak his language

You need to control the country, and the main thing is not to ruin people's lives.

Look outside the window. Do you see the fence outside the palace? Do you see any guards? This is a country where everyone is safe.

I look at Obama, a young man, a good-looking person. That is my first impression, I feel sorry for him. He looks 100 percent like Lukashenko, when I came to power after the breakup of the Soviet Union

In my view this is not democracy, but a zoo.... It was exactly what we expected, but not on that scale nor in that form. In a word, it was nothing but a zoo, you can't put it better

Who can guarantee that he [Alexander Milinkevich, a Belarussian opposition presidential candidate] is the most promising candidate capable of competing with the incumbent president?

Milosevic was an outstanding politician who gave his all to serving his fatherland.

The genius writer was correct. In obtaining freedom, man suddenly understands that he has shouldered a heavy burden, because freedom involves responsibility. A person must make decisions himself and himself answer for them.

You should not be misled about the so-called single opposition candidate. There are so many of them now that you will lack the fingers to count them.