From my point of view, this is the best time of the year. I don't love heat. I'm a winter guy.
It's better to be a dictator than gay.
Dictators don't come from elections.
There are dictators a bit worse than me, no? I'm the lesser evil already.
My position and the state will never allow me to become a dictator, but an authoritarian ruling style is characteristic of me.
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.
An authoritarian style of rule is characteristic of me, and I have always admitted it.
There are some people bent on blowing up the situation in the country. I call them the fifth column. They are not an opposition. They want to stage a rebellion in the country. Their dream is to topple the government and overthrow the president.
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.
You need to control the country, and the main thing is not to ruin people's lives.
The basis of my politics is, first of all, fairness and honesty.
Unlike in the U.K. or France or America, we've never used water cannon for mass riots dispersal.
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.
Permit me to be immodest, but I did something for this country.
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.
I tried to be honest and fair, helped the talented and those in need.
We cannot allow any uncontrolled situation and destabilization in the country.
Belarus is not the Middle East. The policies of Belarussian and Middle Eastern leaders are cardinally different from one another.
The arms business is an absolutely acceptable business.
The history of Germany is a mold for the history of Belarus.
