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

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.

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

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.

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.

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.

You change our world for the better by changing our world for the better.

When you pour out words from your heart to your lover, make sure they aren't on a paper vessel and lost to the wind.

Don't Ask Me Nothing About Nothing, I Just Might Tell You the Truth

Practice the healing power of the compassionate mind.

Do not be a sniveler. Do not say you can't be happy, you can't be enlightened. How do you know? It is all chaos.

I don't consider myself a cynic. I think of myself as a skeptic and a realist.

We have 21 races in the year and Monaco is the one that you want to win.

If it squirms, it's biology; if it stinks, it's chemistry; if it doesn't work, it's physics; and if you can't understand it, it's mathematics.

How do you know what the world is like? Do you know the world is a foul sty? Do you know if you rip the fronts off houses you'd find swine? The world's a hell. What does it matter what happens in it?

Why is acquiescence to the numerous viewed as better servitude than bowing to might?