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.

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

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.

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.

A true friend is someone who thinks that you are a good egg even though he knows that you are slightly cracked.

Practicing dialogue helps you to cultivate a realness that allows you to face reality on its own terms, not just the terms you’d like it to have in order to remain in your comfort zone.

No matter how long a log of wood remains in the river it does not become a crocodile

News objectivity is a twentieth-century myth. We only complain about propaganda when we don't agree with it.

Heroics are not easily had for the young in our times. Perhaps that is why they go to such extremes to create their own dangers.

I love to sleep late, and I rarely have the chance to.

You can't control the quality of projects that are coming to you, so if you get several in a row that are quality, you take them.

There is in art the notion of less is more, which is to say, you don't torture a painting that has already confessed.

The advice is, go slow and take your time with it. That works to my benefit.

The Foole doth thinke he is wise, but the wiseman knowes himselfe to be a Foole.