We put our fingers in the eyes of those who doubt that Libya is ruled by anyone other than its people.

[The] type of education now prevailing all over the world is directed against human freedom. State-controlled education ... deprives people of their free choice, creativity and brilliance.

Popular congresses are the only means to achieve popular democracy. Any system of government other than popular congresses is undemocratic.

Libya has had to put up with too much from the Arabs for whom it has poured forth both blood and money.

I won't be a party to a conspiracy to mobilize the Arabs against the Persians. Only the forces of colonialism benefit from such a conspiracy. I won't be a party to a conspiracy that splits Islam into two - Shiite Islam and Sunni Islam - mobilizing Sunni Islam against Shiite Islam.

Nations whose nationalism is destroyed are subject to ruin.

The man who carried out the attack is still in power and still insane, so we shall expect another attack any minute.