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.
— Muammar Gaddafi Contemporary

Libyan dictator

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Remarks to a crowd including King Abdullah of Saudi Arabia

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2009

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Philosophical

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https://www.aljazeera.com/news/2011/10/20/gaddafi-as-orator-a-life-in-quotes

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