Quotes from Muammar al-Gaddafi

For 40 years, I have not been the ruler - the authority has been with the people. They take nothing from me or add anything to me.

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

We have been terrorised by what happened in America and we express our condolences to the American people who suffered from this unexpected catastrophe and a new world war.

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

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 world doesn't understand the system here. The authority of the people. You don't understand it.

We have to serve God or guarantee the safety of the Jews. And this can be done by them accepting the Palestinians, recognizing the Palestinians, accepting that fact that they should live with the Palestinians in one state, together. Unfortunately, the Jews are fighting or struggling against their own friend - the Arabs.

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.

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

I cannot recognise either the Palestinian state or the Israeli state. The Palestinians are idiots and the Israelis are idiots.

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.

We are telling the American people to have patience, courage, resolve and determination.

[The] type of education now prevailing all over the world is directed against human freedom. State-controlled education ... deprives people of their free choice, creativity and brilliance.

We are telling the American people to have patience, courage, resolve and determination.

We have been terrorised by what happened in America and we express our condolences to the American people who suffered from this unexpected catastrophe and a new world war.

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