"You men and women who love Gaddafi … get out of your homes and fill the streets. Leave your homes; attack them in their lairs."

"I am the leader of the revolution. I am not a president. I am not a king. So I don’t have to leave."

"I am the one who built the new Libya. I am the one who made Libya a great nation."

"Direct democracy, as opposed to representative or parliamentary democracy, is the best remedy for this problem."

"If an individual is insane, that does not mean that the rest of society are mad, too."