"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."

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Source : "Profile: Alexander Lukashenko". news.bbc.co.uk. January 09, 2007.

Alexander Lukashenko

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“In the '50s and in the '60s, the private insurance system originally was a benefit for the bureaucrats in Germany. And this system became ever bigger because the private insurance industry lobbied successfully for making this system bigger. In the '70s and in the '80s, they managed to find a system where they could take everyone beyond 40,000 euros income per year but didn't have to take everyone. So they only took those that had both high income and a secure job and who was not ill at that time.”
“I've always been a gamer. I play a version of Dungeons & Dragons.”
“I would love to get to a point where people do trust the police and the police trust the citizens, and there is a harmonious way of living. It's rough out there. I've seen it. I've been part of it. I'm hoping for the best.”
“Fall, then figure out what to do on the way down.”

Source : Biography/Personal Quotes, www.imdb.com.
“When each one of us become an active and living book of lessons for those who see our examples, the boundaries of religious interpretation will give way to the new era of brotherhood and peace we're waiting for.”
“I think I'm a big romantic.”
“I do not think it is an exaggeration at all to say to my friend from West Virginia [Sen. Robert C. Byrd, a former Ku Klux Klan recruiter] that he would have been a great senator at any moment. . . . He would have been right during the great conflict of civil war in this nation.”

Source : "Dodd praise for Byrd hit by GOP". www.washingtontimes.com. April 8, 2004.
“For the most part, it's a world of artists that are very in their own heads.”

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