Muammar Gaddafi Audio message broadcast on the pro-Gaddafi Syrian Al Rai TV on 20 September 2011, as quoted in Libya conflict: Muammar Gaddafi urges mass protests http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/world-africa-15206478, BBC World News, 6 October 2011
«Americans are good people. They have no aggressions against us and they like us as we like them. They must know I don’t hate them. I love them.… I hear it is a complex society inside. Many Americans don’t know about the outside world. The majority have no concern and no information about other people. They could not even find Africa on a map. I think Americans are good, but America will be taken over and destroyed from the inside by the Zionist lobby. The Americans do not see this. They are getting decadent. Zionists will use this to destroy them»
Muammar Gaddafi The Pittsburgh Press (3 August 1986) «Gadhafi, the man the world loves to hate» by Marie Colvin (UPI)
«Why should we be closer to the Soviets? Because the Americans have challenged us. America is involved in a conspiracy [against the Arab world], primarily because of its policy toward Israel. In our view, whoever is against the Americans stands with us. The enemy of your enemy is your friend»
Gaddafi Time (9 April 1979) «World: An Interview with Gaddafi» http://www.time.com/time/magazine/article/0,9171,920211-1,00.html
«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?»
Muammar Gaddafi Interview with Oriana Fallaci (2 December 1979), Corrieredella Sera
«Africa is closer to me in every way than Iraq or Syria»
Muammar Gaddafi Interview (2001), quoted in BBC News (6 February 2001) «Analysis: Gaddafi’s revolution» by Gerald Butt
«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»
