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

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?

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.

Everyone agrees the celibacy rule is just a Church law dating from the 11th century, not a divine command.

Downfall, failure and death cannot be far from any man who made counterfeit friends his ally and support.

A slavish concern for the composition of words is the sign of a bankrupt intellect. Be gone, odious wasp! You smell of decayed syllables.

True, I have raped history, but it has produced some beautiful offspring.

We cannot solve our problems with the same thinking we used when we created them.

The wine-shops breed, in physical atmosphere of malaria and a moral pestilence of envy and vengeance, the men of crime and revolution.

Where does a man go when there are no more corners to turn, when he's running out of hope, out of luck, out of time?

I don't care if I remain prime minister. I'm only interested in doing a good job as long as I'm capable and for as long as I don't get tired.

Men will not be content to manufacture life: they will want to improve on it.

The supposed unhappiness of the rich is always a cheerful topic of conversation.