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

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

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.

Confidence is a magnet to success.

I sincerely hope that they (relations between India and Pakistan) will be friendly and cordial. We have a great deal to do...and think that we can be of use to each other and to the world.

Every age, Through being beheld too close, is ill-discerned By those who have not lived past it.

I really think one of the greatest allies you can have is the imagination of your audience.

Let there be nothing harmonious about our children's playthings, lest they grow up expecting peace and order, and be eaten alive.

The civilized man is a larger mind but a more imperfect nature than the savage.

We really owe a great deal to the rubber tree.

Do not eat garlic or onions; for their smell will reveal that you are a peasant.

YOU'RE just humming with sexual energy! Is it the fabric? Is it wearing tights?

You know, when you get to the New World and you develop your three branches of government and you have a civil society, you can just jettison all the barbarism I recommended in the first books.