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.

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.

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.

I'm just competitive. It doesn't matter what it is. I want to win.

When man has nothing but his will to assert--even his good-will--it is always bullying. Bolshevism is one sort of bullying, capitalism another: and liberty is a change of chains.

A lot of people tend to think that because I need all this time on my own in the studio, that I need time on my own, period. And that's not really true.

When I was in college, I had a jazz radio show. I called it 'Excursion on a Wobbly Rail,' after a Cecil Taylor song. I used to run around the Village following Ornette Coleman wherever he played.

We are all the heroes and heroines of our own lives. Our love stories are amazingly romantic; our losses and betrayals and disappointments are gigantic in our own minds.

Thor is a legend after all and if you're getting a legend back, you've got to get the Darby in.

Trust is as slippery as a basket of eels sometimes.

I feel like my pure and proper image is causing others to be really cautious about becoming close to me. They think I sleep as soon as it hits midnight

Once I step on the field, by the things I do in practice and the way I practice, you can't tell that I don't love the game. But I just know it deep down.

We each live in a private, distorted, individual world - stars turning in space, warmed for a moment by each other's light, then lost in infinite distance.