"I am a living example of how a true democracy can function."

"The Western countries are trying to recolonize Libya."

"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…"

"I am not going to leave this land. I will die as a martyr … I shall remain, defiant. Muammar is leader of the revolution until the end of time …"

"I am a prophet of the revolution."