Lukashenko Quotes

#1. I look at Obama, a young man, a good-looking person. That is my first impression, I feel sorry for him. He looks 100 percent like Lukashenko, when I came to power after the breakup of the Soviet Union

Alexander Lukashenko

#2. My homeland of Belarus is an unlikely place for an Internet revolution. The country, controlled by authoritarian President Alexander Lukashenko since 1994, was once described by Condoleezza Rice as 'the last outpost of tyranny in Europe.'

Evgeny Morozov

#3. 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.

Alexander Lukashenko

#4. Lukashenko grabbed victory through force and lies.

Alaksandar Milinkievic

#5. I said to myself a long time ago that I didn't want to be that hanging-on-for-too-long, aging-rock-musician guy, and that's why I sort of got away from music.

Eric Avery

#6. We do not need an imported system for falsifying elections! We will create our own, one run by the state!

Alexander Lukashenko

#7. A child has a greater chance of being sexually abused than burned in a fire. Along with stop, drop, and roll we must teach them to yell, run, and tell.

Carolyn Byers Ruch

#8. God, he was an evil bastard, but boy was he good!

MFR

#9. A faithful friend is a sturdy shelter: he that has found one has found a treasure." (Sirach 6:14)

Philip D. Halfacre

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

Alexander Lukashenko

#11. If you put garbage in a computer nothing comes out but garbage. But this garbage, having passed through a very expensive machine, is somehow ennobled and none dare criticize it.

Rory Bremner

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

Alexander Lukashenko

#13. 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

Alexander Lukashenko

#14. The genius writer was correct. In obtaining freedom, man suddenly understands that he has shouldered a heavy burden, because freedom involves responsibility. A person must make decisions himself and himself answer for them.

Alexander Lukashenko

#15. A thug only understands you when you speak his language

Alexander Lukashenko

#16. Don't forget to let your reader feel the emotions of the scene. If you get all tied up with the mechanics of where the hero's hands are and not about how they make the heroine feel, then the scene will read flat.

Catherine Bybee

#17. It's really not hard to keep your dignity and sign to a major label ... Most people don't have any dignity in the first place.

Kurt Cobain

#18. Elections are the formal processes by which those decisions are recorded. The regulation of the quantity, content and timing of political speech is clearly unrelated to regulating an election's "time" or "place." Can

Anonymous

#19. But there isn't going to be any First Lady. There is just to be plain, ordinary Mrs. Roosevelt ... I never wanted to be the president's wife, and don't want it now. You don't quite believe me, do you? Very likely no one would-except possibly some woman who had had the job.

Eleanor Roosevelt

#20. Modernism in Vienna brought together science and culture in a new way to create an Age of Insight that emphasized a more complex view of the human mind than had ever existed before.

Eric Kandel

#21. I don't really understand what a dictator is, but on the other hand I sometimes, in a nice way, envy myself," he said. "I am the last and only dictator in Europe and indeed there are none anywhere else in the world.

Alexander Lukashenko

#22. Whoever was shouting about dictatorship there ... when I heard that, I thought: it's better to be a dictator than gay

Alexander Lukashenko

#23. Make decisions, not excuses!

John Di Lemme

#24. 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.

Alexander Lukashenko

#25. My position and the state will never allow me to become a dictator, but an authoritarian style of rule is characteristic of me, and I have always admitted it. You need to control the country, and the main thing is not to ruin people's lives.

Alexander Lukashenko

#26. Did my infancy succeed another age of mine that dies before it? Was it that which I spent within my mother's womb? ... And what before that life again, O God of my joy, was I anywhere or in any body?

Saint Augustine

#27. It's better to be a dictator than gay.

Alexander Lukashenko

#28. 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.

Alexander Lukashenko

#29. Immortality is a chancy thing; it cannot be promised or earned. Perhaps it cannot even be identified for what it is.

Gregory Maguire

#30. If someone is a lesbian, it's man's fault.

Alexander Lukashenko

#31. My parents always encouraged us to get an education and establish a profession. However, my brothers and I grew up with considerable freedom, whether it was saving or spending our tips from the restaurant or our career choices.

Ferid Murad