Alexander Lukashenko quotes
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“It's better to be a dictator than gay.”
-- Alexander LukashenkoSource : "Guido Westerwelle, former German foreign minister, dies at 54" by Kate Connolly, www.theguardian.com. March 18, 2016.
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“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 LukashenkoSource : "Belarus President Seeks to Deploy Russia Missiles" by Alan Cullison, www.wsj.com. November 14, 2008.
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“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”
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“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 LukashenkoSource : Press conference for Ukrainian journalists, November 2006.
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“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.”
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“Who can guarantee that he [Alexander Milinkevich, a Belarussian opposition presidential candidate] is the most promising candidate capable of competing with the incumbent president?”
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“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 LukashenkoSource : "Profile: Alexander Lukashenko". news.bbc.co.uk. January 09, 2007.
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“You need to control the country, and the main thing is not to ruin people's lives.”
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“A thug only understands you when you speak his language”
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“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.”
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“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.”
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“Whoever was shouting about dictatorship there...when I heard that, I thought: it's better to be a dictator than gay”
-- Alexander LukashenkoSource : "Belarus President Alexander Lukashenko: 'Better To Be A Dictator Than Gay'" by Lidia Kelly and Ben Harding, www.huffingtonpost.com. March 4, 2012.
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“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 LukashenkoSource : Interview with Camilla Johnson-Hill, www.interviewmagazine.com. February 22, 2010.
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“We do not need an imported system for falsifying elections! We will create our own, one run by the state!”
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“If someone is a lesbian, it's man's fault.”
-- Alexander LukashenkoSource : YouTube Channel "gaybelarus"/"Lukashenko about gays and lesbians", www.youtube.com. December 04, 2011.
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