Alexander Lukashenko Quotes

I have yet to meet a Russian who views the Ukraine as a separate state apart from Russia.

We cannot build a viable state with a country that is disintegrating into small pieces.

We must unify Taiwan; we cannot afford to have our society being divided in half.

We are totally committed to ending partition and to creating the conditions for unity and independence.

Our country - whether bounded by the St. John's and the Sabine, or however otherwise bounded or described, and be the measurements more or less; - still our country, to be cherished in all our hearts, and to be defended by all our hands.

After centuries the time has come when India has gained independence from foreign rule and it's the time when we all [the Independent Princely States) should unite for our motherland""

When you have people in a geographical area who do not want to be a part of a country, you cannot keep them in that country forever.

Sub-national, ethnic or tribal factions cannot expect to undermine the political unit in which they exist while claiming the privileges of a sovereign nation-state.

The Czechoslovak conception gives the Slovaks an all-State, more universal consciousness. This conception makes us a 10-million strong nation and not a mere 2-million fraction. How is it possible that there should be Slovaks who do not understand this

A republic has been established, and our compatriots in Mongolia, Tibet, Qinghai and Xinjiang, who have always been a part of China, are all now Chinese citizens who are masters of their country.

The goal of our actions is and will remain a sovereign and territorially intact Ukraine that can decide its own future.

Being independent caused us nothing but trouble. I do not want Chechnya to be independent from Russia.

Arunachal Pradesh was with India, is with India, and will remain with India.

The big issue is whether Ukraine is successful as a country. Democracy. Market economy. Prosperity. Security. And so on. And whether we can resolve this conflict, which I think is an important step in restoring sovereignty, restoring territorial integrity in Europe, getting beyond the impasse that we have with Russia now, that's where we would like to go.

We must strive to form a comprehensive sublime nationalism whose first principal is national geographic unity and must strengthen this unity with deeds not with words.

In this choice of inheritance we have given to our frame of polity the image of a relation in blood; binding up the constitution of our country with our dearest domestic ties; adopting our fundamental laws into the bosom of our family affections; keeping inseparable and cherishing with the warmth of all their combined and mutually reflected charities, our state, our hearths, our sepulchres, and our altars.

We've got have a country.

We will continue to work together to implement the Minsk accord and doing all we can to return to peace with the respect of the integrity and sovereignty of Ukraine.

What's a country? It's just an administrative unit, a glorified municipality. Why do we imbue it with esoteric meaning and protect it with nuclear bombs? I can't bow down to a municipality... it's just not intelligent. The bastards will do what they have to do, and we'll do what we have to do. Even if they annihilate us, we'll go down on the other side.

We remain more than a collection of red states and blue states. We are and forever will be the United States of America.

A nation's not a child, for God's sake. ... It's like a wild horse you tame by breaking it. Or a fiery woman you slap till she sees sense and warms your bed.

We have a secret weapon...it is called Nationalism

To divide along the lines of section or caste or creed is un-American.

It is as queen of Canada that I am here. Queen of Canada and all Canadians, not just one or two ancestral strains.

A nation may be said to consist of its territory, its people, and its laws. The territory is the only part which is of certain durability.