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.

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

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

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.

It's better to be a dictator than gay.

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.