Muammar al-Gaddafi Quotes - Page 2

I am defending the Jews to prevent them from becoming extinct, because they are doomed to become extinct if they continue this way.... I am convinced that the solution is to establish a democratic state for the Jews and the Palestinians, a state that will be called Palestine, Isratine, or whatever they want. This is the fundamental solution, or else the Jews will be annihilated in the future, because the Palestinians have [strategic] depth.

When everyone is part of the people's congress, what need is there for an opposition? Opposition to what? You oppose a government! If there is no government, and the people govern themselves on their own, what are they going to oppose? Something that isn't there?

All right, then nobody can complain if we ask pregnant women to make parachute jumps.

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.

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

I do not support peace in the Middle East. And I do not support Arafat. He is a stupid, incompetent fool!

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.

The times of Arab nationalism and unity are gone forever. These ideas which mobilized the masses are only a worthless currency. Libya has had to put up with too much from the Arabs for whom it has poured forth both blood and money.

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

We can export terrorism. We can assassinate and set fires inside the territory of the United States as it did to all of us.

If a community of people wears white on a mournful occasion and another dresses in black, then one community would like white and dislike black and the other would like black and dislike white. Moreover, this attitude leaves a physical effect on the cells as well as on the genes in the body.

Their ages are 17. They give them pills at night, they put hallucinatory pills in their drinks, their milk, their coffee, their Nescafe.

If Abu Nidal is a terrorist, then so is George Washington.

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.

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

The times of Arab nationalism and unity are gone forever.

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

While it is democratically not permissible for an individual to own any information or publishing medium, all individuals have a natural right to self-expression by any means, even if such means were insane and meant to prove a person's insanity.

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

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.

We can call it Isratine.

We are used to facing the United States as a fortress from the outside. Now we are finding a breach to penetrate the country (the U.S.) and confront it from within.

We put our fingers in the eyes of those who doubt that Libya is ruled by anyone other than its people.

Libya has had to put up with too much from the Arabs for whom it has poured forth both blood and money.

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