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.


Statement (August 2003), as quoted in BBC - Profile: Alexander Lukashenko (9 January 2007).

BBC Profile: Alexander Lukashenko

Alexander Lukashenko Quotes

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...

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...

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...

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...