Top 77 Quotes & Sayings by Alexander Lukashenko
Explore popular quotes and sayings by a Belarusian politician Alexander Lukashenko.
Last updated on December 24, 2024.
If you get a child when you're 50, you'll understand what children are.
For the sake of calm in the country, I am ready to sacrifice my own sanity.
I repeat for the umpteenth time, without making apologies: My children have had more than their fair share of presidency under their father. There cannot be any hereditary transfer of power.
As president, I'm not supposed to play games or show my hand, because there's a lot going on behind the scenes that you don't see or hear and don't need to know.
No matter who comes to Belarusian land, I will fight. Even if it is Putin.
Unlike in the U.K. or France or America, we've never used water cannon for mass riots dispersal.
The arms business is an absolutely acceptable business.
Who is against human rights in Belarus today? Of course, no one should view human rights as the right to smash shop windows or stir up unrest in the streets.
Innovations, IT technologies, privatisation - it is all clear. We've conquered all of them. But everything is, very simply, one should get undressed and work.
We will ensure the interests of both the East and the West in Belarus. Don't try to rip us apart; don't try to make us collide with Russia or with the West.
We will never have Russian-style privatization.
An authoritarian style of rule is characteristic of me, and I have always admitted it.
I'm an advocate of evolutionary, not revolutionary, changes.
We cannot allow any uncontrolled situation and destabilization in the country.
We are trying to work around the world. We would like very much to cooperate with the United States.
There is no scope for revolutions coming to Belarus.
I am reproached for allegedly preparing my children, my eldest son, as a successor. I swear to you I have never discussed this idea, even with my family or with my sons.
We will remain independent for as long as our economy develops as needed. We won't be able to maintain our independence if we ruin the economy.
I have never moved away from my promises to people.
We will not have Americans telling us what to do... We cannot be brought to our knees.
You need to control the country, and the main thing is not to ruin people's lives.
A president has - and I had it even before I became president - a very special relationship with the people, a connection based on feelings.
The color revolution virus affects only weak countries. Belarus does not have any breeding ground for this.
Dictators don't come from elections.
The history of Germany is a mold for the history of Belarus.
I am for a single and unified Ukraine.
As soon as people decline my services, I'll put my briefcase under my arm, and I'll be off.
People call me an anti-reformer. That's absolutely stupid.
We are a peace-loving people.
I have always believed that genuine democracy is fairness.
I am not afraid of mass media.
If we put people to work and they are busy, we will have less crime.
The basis of my politics is, first of all, fairness and honesty.
I have only you, the people of Belarus, and I will serve to the last of my days.
Permit me to be immodest, but I did something for this country.
We are not a gigantic state, we do not have nuclear weapons, but our army is sufficiently capable to respond to any threat... Therefore, we will protect our patch of land, our statehood, and our independence.
I am sure that it is the Belarus people who are the masters in our state.
My position and the state will never allow me to become a dictator, but an authoritarian ruling style is characteristic of me.
The sanctions which the West introduced against Russia seriously affect us.
Belarus cannot be isolated.
During the years of my presidency, I lived a tough and difficult life.
I understand reform to mean the perfection of what previous generations have already done. I'm not an advocate of destroying, 'kroshat,' and then selling like they do in Russia. That's how we can prevent the wild corruption in our state like they have in the other post-Soviet states.
I tried to be honest and fair, helped the talented and those in need.
Belarus is not a superpower, but we pay a lot of attention to sports.
Belarus will become the first government in the world that opens wide opportunities for the use of blockchain technology.
Americans want to democratise us. OK, but why not go and democratise Saudi Arabia. Are we anything like Saudi Arabia? No, we are far from that. So why aren't they democratising Saudi Arabia? Because they are bastards, but they are their bastards.
It is time to stop the anarchy on the Internet. We cannot allow this great technological achievement of man to be turned into an information garbage heap.
We have always argued that attempts to isolate Belarus, like other countries, lead to a dead end. In this situation, everyone loses.
Belarus is not the Middle East. The policies of Belarussian and Middle Eastern leaders are cardinally different from one another.
American democracy has two faces.
I ask myself what is a dictator? I don't understand. It is some kind of terrible person, a bad person. But I am not frightening. I am not a bad person at all.
American envoys came to see me before the crisis in Iraq and asked me to say that there were nuclear weapons in Iraq. I refused. They even told me that things would go well for Belarus in terms of investments, etc. All I had to do was to support them. I told them that I couldn't do it because I knew that there were no nuclear weapons there.
There are dictators a bit worse than me, no? I'm the lesser evil already.
It took centuries to form the German order.
We have fulfilled all our agreements and all the conditions set by the IMF better than any other state.
It's better to be a dictator than gay.
If you give me carte blanche for any destruction and any revolutionary transformations, if that is what you want, then for God's sake, we will do it. The issue is not me: the issue is society.
The Belarussian people trust their army and are confident in the reliability of the national security system.
From my point of view, this is the best time of the year. I don't love heat. I'm a winter guy.
You know that in the Eurasian space, Russia is the central state, the most powerful state. But to become an empire, a member of some empire, a province in this empire - you know, we're probably not ready for that yet, neither in Kazakhstan nor in Belarus.
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