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Africa is closer to me in every way than Iraq or Syria.

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My brother! You are my brother for the rest of my life!

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Nations whose nationalism is destroyed are subject to ruin.

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There is no state with a democracy except Libya on the whole planet.

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I am a Bedouin warrior who brought glory to Libya and will die a martyr.

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Those rats … were attacked by the masses tonight and we eliminated them.

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The integrity of China was more important than [the people] in Tiananmen Square.

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Nothing would please me more, but who else would pump the oil that we need? God damn America.
To a question on expelling Americans from Libya

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Libya lived for 5000 years without oil and it is ready to live another 5000 years without it.

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I have nothing to say to him [Ronald Reagan], because he is mad. He is foolish. He is an Israeli dog.

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Man's freedom is lacking if somebody else controls what he needs, for need may result in man's enslavement of man.

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Reagan is mad. If he were here, I would tell him the truth about us. He hears about us only through hostile sources.

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Popular congresses are the only means to achieve popular democracy. Any system of government other than popular congresses is undemocratic.

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We [Libyans] support the Palestinian resistance, and all the world supports this. We support their just cause, but we are against terrorism.

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We will fight in every valley, in every street, in every oasis, and every town. We won't surrender again; we are not women; we will keep fighting.

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When I met Nasser, he said to me, "I see myself when I was young in you. You are the future for the Arab revolution." This meant very, very much to me.

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I am not going to leave this land. I will die as a martyr at the end. I shall remain, defiant. Muammar is Leader of the Revolution until the end of time.

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We believe America is practicing all kinds of terrorism against Libya. Even the accusation that we are involved in terrorism is in itself an act of terrorism.

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What's going on? … What you are doing is not allowed in Islamic law [halal]. What you are doing is forbidden in Islam [haraam]! … Do you know right from wrong?
Remarks to captors minutes before death

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As you know too well democracy and building of civil society cannot be achieved by means of missiles and aircraft, or by backing armed member of AlQuaeda in Benghazi.

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Lincoln was a man who created himself from nothing without any help from outside or other people. I followed his struggles. I see certain similarities between him and me.

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The black people's struggle has vanquished racism. It was God who created colour. Today Obama, a son of Kenya, a son of Africa, has made it in the United States of America.

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In the Middle East, the opposition is quite different than the opposition in advanced countries. In our countries, the opposition takes the form of explosions, assassinations, killings.

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I am an international leader, the dean of the Arab rulers, the king of kings of Africa and the imam of Muslims, and my international status does not allow me to descend to a lower level.

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