"When others were building castles, I lived in a modest house, and in a tent. I never forgot my youth in Sirte, I did not spend our national treasury foolishly, and like Salah-al-Deen, our great Muslim…"

"There is a conspiracy to control Libyan oil and to control Libyan land, to colonise Libya once again. This is impossible, impossible. We will fight until the last man and last woman to defend Libya fr…"

"My weapon is my voice, and I will use it to defend my people."

"Protestors are serving the devil, they want to humiliate you."

"I do not wish to die, but if it comes to that, to save this land, my people, all the thousands who are all my children, then so be it."