These Libya quotes will inspire you. Libya officially the State of Libya is a country in the Maghreb region in North Africa bordered by the Mediterranean Sea to the north, Egypt to the east, Sudan to the southeast, Chad to the south, Niger to the southwest, Algeria to the west, Tunisia to the northwest, and maritime borders with Malta and Greece.
A collection of motivating, happy, and encouraging Libya quotes, Libya sayings, and Libya proverbs.
Best Libya Quotes
- “I know something of the good of Moammar Gadhafi that made me to love him as a brother and to feel a great sense of loss at his assassination… Gadhafi died in honor, fighting for the Libya that he believed in.” ~ Louis Farrakhan
- “We’re going to take out seven countries in 5 years, starting with Iraq, and then Syria, Lebanon, Libya, Somalia, Sudan and, finishing off, Iran.” ~ Wesley Clark
- “I am a Bedouin warrior who brought glory to Libya and will die a martyr.” ~ Muammar al-Gaddafi
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“There is no state with a democracy except Libya on the whole planet.” ~ Muammar al-Gaddafi
- “China gets their oil from Libya. Why isn’t China involved? They’re going out spending billions of dollars a day on trying to take over the world economically. And we’re spending billions and billions and billions of dollars on policing the world. Why isn’t China involved with Libya? That – we don’t get oil from Libya, China does.” ~ Donald Trump
- “The times of Arab nationalism and unity are gone forever.” ~ Muammar al-Gaddafi
- “The times of Arab nationalism and unity are gone forever. These ideas which mobilized the masses are only a worthless currency. Libya has had to put up with too much from the Arabs for whom it has poured forth both blood and money.” ~ Muammar al-Gaddafi
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“Iran, Libya and Syria are irresponsible states, which must be disarmed of weapons of mass destruction, and a successful American move in Iraq as a model will make that easier to achieve.” ~ Ariel Sharon
- “So while I will never minimize the costs involved in military action, I am convinced that a failure to act in Libya would have carried a far greater price for America.” ~ Barack Obama
- “I said that America’s role would be limited; that we would not put ground troops into Libya; that we would focus our unique capabilities on the front end of the operation and that we would transfer responsibility to our allies and partners.” ~ Barack Obama
- “Of course, there is no question that Libya – and the world – will be better off with Gaddafi out of power. I, along with many other world leaders, have embraced that goal, and will actively pursue it through non-military means. But broadening our military mission to include regime change would be a mistake.” ~ Barack Obama
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“I have been to Libya and walked the streets of Benghazi myself.” ~ Susan Rice
- “New rumors that Saddam Hussein is planning to flee to a castle in Libya with 10 billion dollars. Now President Bush doesn’t know whether to nuke him or give him a tax cut.” ~ Craig Kilborn
- “But so far, you know who’s been violating the nuclear nonproliferation pact day and night? Those who signed it. Iran, Iraq, Libya and Iran violates it while calling for Israel’s destruction and racing to develop atomic weapons to that end.” ~ Benjamin Netanyahu
- “The UN Commission on Human Rights, whose membership in recent years has included countries – such as Libya and Sudan – which have deplorable human rights records, and the recent Oil-for-Food scandal, are just a few examples of why reform is so imperative.” ~ John Linder
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“Libya has had to put up with too much from the Arabs for whom it has poured forth both blood and money.” ~ Muammar al-Gaddafi
- “We’re not getting involved in terms of sending ground forces into Libya. Let’s be clear about that. And indeed the UN Resolution forbids that. It says no foreign occupation of any part of Libya.” ~ William Hague
- “As has been pointed out with Libya, the debate over Libya, sometimes we allow diplomatic relations with imperfect regimes because progress can best be made through engagement instead of isolation.” ~ Earl Blumenauer
- “If you look in the Muslim World right now, the Shia, the Sunni Muslims are standing at the brink of a pit of fire started by Western intervention and influence in pitting them against each other by exploiting their divisions. So the stage is set for war in that area of the world that would destroy that area as completely as what they are calling the failed state Libya making Syria, Afghanistan and Iraq failed states.” ~ Louis Farrakhan
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“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 al-Gaddafi
- “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.” ~ Muammar al-Gaddafi
- “I’m outraged by the attacks on American diplomatic missions in Libya and Egypt and by the death of an American consulate worker in Benghazi. It’s disgraceful that the Obama Administration’s first response was not to condemn attacks on our diplomatic missions, but to sympathize with those who waged the attacks.” ~ Mitt Romney
- “I think no country is going to be immune from the Arab awakening because the Arab awakening is driven by deep human longing for dignity, for justice and for freedom. I think that applies to young people in Saudi Arabia as much as to young people in Egypt, Tunisia, or Yemen, or Libya, or Syria. If I were in Saudi Arabia, I would be getting ahead of this and looking for ways to appreciate those aspirations and align my country with them.” ~ Thomas Friedman
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“We know that this mad dog of the Middle East has a goal of a world revolution. (On Muammar Qaddafi of Libya)” ~ Ronald Reagan
- “Okay, Libya. President Obama supported the uprising, correct?… No, that’s a different one. I’ve got to go back, got all this stuff twirling around in my head.” ~ Herman Cain
- “Continuous wars – which we have now had since 2001 – starting with Afghanistan, continuing on to Iraq. And even since Iraq, it’s been more or less continuous. The appalling war in Libya, which has wrecked that country and wrecked that part of the world, and which isn’t over by any means. The indirect Western intervention in Syria, which has created new monsters. These are policies, which if carried out by any individual government, would be considered extremist. Now, they’re being carried out collectively by the United States, backed by some of the countries of the European Union.” ~ Tariq Ali
- “Not only did you have people fleeing Libya, people fleeing Syria, the destabilisation of other African countries as a result of arms flows, but the Libyan state itself err was no longer able to control the movement of people through it.” ~ Julian Assange
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“I was a fighter pilot, flying Hurricanes all round the Mediterranean. I flew in the Western Desert of Libya, in Greece, in Syria, in Iraq and in Egypt.” ~ Roald Dahl
- “I think that it’s premature to call Libya a democracy because political order is still so fragile there and the command by the state over the means of violence is still so inadequate that I think state building remains a major challenge. And until the militias can be reined in and the authority of the democratically-elected state can really be firmly established, there’s still tremendous fragility and vulnerability in the unfolding story in Libya.” ~ Larry Diamond
- “This [U.S.] bombing in Libya. So what are we doing in Libya? We just dropped some bombs on someone who we found is a leader there, maybe we killed some group attending a leadership meeting. Does this mean the problem is going to go away? No. It means we’re going to have worse guys.” ~ Michael T. Flynn
- “I am a supporter of much of the Arab Spring, as a matter of indigenous self-determination. So, I see the United States’ role in Libya as an appropriately restrained one in providing some international support for the work of those trying to bring democratic change against a regime that has undoubtedly been dictatorial, particularly in the past twenty years.” ~ Melissa Harris-Perry
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“If you look at Libya, I was deeply concerned about what would happen after Qaddafi was gone.” ~ Barack Obama
- “I think we ought to use the same formula that we used when we took out Moammar Gadhafi in Libya. We have unique resources that no other country has, especially in the air. Intelligence and the ability to find where things are. I think the governments need to get together, because this is getting very serious.” ~ Dutch Ruppersberger
- “The United States has been essentially engaged in an ongoing war that most people date from 2001. That war has taken us to Afghanistan, to Iraq, in a lesser way to other countries – Libya, Somalia, Yemen.” ~ James Mattis
- “There’s no UN resolution that allows the United States to carry out operations in Syria. You’ll remember that in Libya in 2011 there was a great hoopla made about the importance of getting a UN resolution. Here there was no attempt to get any resolution. They simply bombed in Syria.” ~ Vijay Prashad
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“Libya is a great country, a respectful country, and the Libyan people are great people.” ~ Al-Saadi Gaddafi
- “Libya faces along to the Mediterranean and had been effectively the cork in the bottle of Africa. So all problems, economic problems and civil war in Africa – previously people fleeing those problems didn’t end up in Europe because Libya policed the Mediterranean. That was said explicitly at the time, back in early 2011 by [Muammar] Gaddafi: ‘What do these Europeans think they’re doing, trying to bomb and destroy the Libyan State? There’s going to be floods of migrants out of Africa and jihadists into Europe, and this is exactly what happened.” ~ Julian Assange
- “I think what Mr. Trump has made clear is that he would not undertake optional wars, what I have called wars of choice, a la, say Iraq in 2003 or Libya, for the purposes of transforming another country. It’s not clear whether Hillary Clinton, if she were to have the opportunity, would do such a thing again or whether she would have taken a – the lesson from both Iraq and Libya that we ought not to be undertaking those kinds of wars of choice.” ~ Richard N. Haass
- “I’ve been saying for a long time, and I think you’ll agree, because I said it to you once, had we taken the oil – and we should have taken the oil – ISIS would not have been able to form either, because the oil was their primary source of income. And now they have the oil all over the place, including the oil – a lot of the oil in Libya, which was another one of her disasters.” ~ Donald Trump
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“[Donald Trump] actually advocated for the actions we took in Libya and urged that [Muamar] Gadhafi be taken out, after actually doing some business with him one time.” ~ Hillary Clinton
- “I think the debate was really some powerful moments of clarity. We saw that Donald Trump, substantively, has the same issues on issue after issue as Hillary Clinton. He agreed with Hillary Clinton on Libya, toppling the government in Libya. That led directly to Benghazi, led to handing that country over to radical Islamic terrorism.” ~ Ted Cruz4
- “Then there are three or four countries that have said they won’t do anything. I believe Libya, Cuba and Germany are ones that have indicated they won’t help in any respect.” ~ Donald Rumsfeld
- “The events in Crimea themselves have nothing to do with what happened in Iraq, Afghanistan, Libya and other regions. In my opinion, when the world becomes unipolar, or when someone tries to make it so, then this one pole has the illusion that all issues can be settled through power. And only when there is a balance of power does the desire to negotiate appears.” ~ Vladimir Putin
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“Without the public support, we cannot withstand two years and a half. Look at the other countries, look what happened in Libya, in Tunisia and in Egypt.” ~ Bashar al-Assad
- “Hillary Clinton has made bad judgment not only on taxes. She’s made bad judgments on Libya, on Syria, on Iraq. I mean, her and Obama, whether you like it or not, the way they got out of Iraq, the vacuum they’ve left, that’s why ISIS formed in the first place. They started from that little area, and now they’re in 32 different nations, Hillary. Congratulations. Great job.” ~ Donald Trump
- “Even after the whole democratization process, it’s quite clear that the United States are not seen in a positive way in all the Muslim-majority countries – in Egypt, in Libya, even in Tunisia – even though we have now a kind of trying to be recognized as democrats by the Islamists who are running, you know, Tunisia and Egypt. But the popular sentiment is very, very negative.” ~ Tariq Ramadan
- “Libya faces along to the Mediterranean and had been effectively the cork in the bottle of Africa. So all problems, economic problems and civil war in Africa – previously people fleeing those problems didn’t end up in Europe because Libya policed the Mediterranean. That was said explicitly at the time, back in early 2011 by Gaddafi: ‘What do these Europeans think they’re doing, trying to bomb and destroy the Libyan State? There’s going to be floods of migrants out of Africa and jihadists into Europe’, and this is exactly what happened.” ~ Julian Assange
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“So while I will never minimize the costs involved in military action, I am convinced that a failure to act in Libya would have carried a far greater price for America.” ~ Barack Obama
- “Currently, the United States has troops in dozens of countries and is actively fighting in Iraq, Syria, Libya, and Yemen (with the occasional drone strike in Pakistan). In addition, the United States is pledged to defend 28 countries in NATO. It is unwise to expand the monetary and military obligations of the United States given the burden of our $20 trillion debt.” ~ Rand Paul
- “I’m going to be specific so you can render your verdict. Let’s go to North Africa, she was the chief engineer of the disastrous overthrow of [Muamar] Qaddafi in Libya. Libya today after Hillary Clinton’s grand strategy? Their economy’s in ruins. There’s death and violence on the streets, and ISIS is now dominating that country.” ~ Chris Christie
- “At no time in the past, now or in the future has or will Russia take any part in actions aimed at overthrowing the legitimate government. I’m talking about something else right now – when someone does this, the outcome is very negative. Libya’s state is disintegrated, Iraq’s territory is flooded with terrorists, it looks like the scenario will be the same for Syria, and you know what the situation is in Afghanistan.” ~ Vladimir Putin
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“We don’t know something called elections in Libya. We are a muslim country. We don’t know something called colonialism and political parties.” ~ Al-Saadi Gaddafi
- “Looking more deeply at the emergence of ISIS or the chaos that exists in Syria, Yemen and Libya would clearly raise crucial doubts about reliance on military intervention and drone warfare as adequate counterterrorist responses and would call attention to the detrimental effects of US “special relationships” with Israel and Saudi Arabia.” ~ Richard A. Falk
- “I mean, you can agree or disagree with Iraq or Afghanistan, but by the way, now the great campaigning cause out there is the absence of intervention in Syria. And then in Libya, it’s partial intervention. And that doesn’t really explain why some countries that have literally nothing to do with the interventions in the Middle East end up getting targeted.” ~ Tony Blair
- “If you look at the list of the top wheat importers for 2010, almost half of them are Middle Eastern regimes: Egypt, Algeria, Iraq, Morocco, Yemen, Saudi Arabia, Libya, and Tunisia. Egypt is the number-one importer of wheat in the entire world. Tunisia leads the entire world in per capita wheat consumption. So it’s no wonder that the revolutions began with Tunisians waving baguettes in the streets and Egyptians wearing helmets made of bread.” ~ Annia Ciezadlo
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“I will return to Libya and undertake my duties and obligations to bring equality within the chaos.” ~ Al-Saadi Gaddafi
- “Countries in which immigration will be suspended would include places like Syria and Libya.And we are going to stop the tens of thousands of people coming in from Syria. We have no idea who they are, where they come from. There’s no documentation. There’s no paperwork.” ~ Donald Trump
- “The Syrian border town of Qa’im was the main gateway Islamic radicals used to go to Iraq. Syria became the passageway for extremists from Egypt, Libya, Afghanistan, Yemen, Saudi Arabia and other Muslim nations to fight a jihad against American forces in Iraq.” ~ Richard Engel
- “Obama said he went to Libya because of his conscience. Did anyone ever wrestle with his conscience and lose?” ~ Mort Sahl
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“Did Hillary Clinton short-circuit when she advocated for the overthrow of Muamar Gaddafi and Libya is now an Islamic State stranglehold?” ~ Rudy Giuliani
- “The rebel army in Libya is just like 1,000 guys in Toyota trucks. The world is asking the question; can 1000 anti-government guys in pick-up trucks with small arms, take over a country of millions? To which I say, ask the Teabaggers.” ~ Bill Maher
- “Hillary Clinton’s policies obviously didn’t work. What you have to do is look at Libya, look at anything you want to look at and to have it work.” ~ Donald Trump
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“Hillary Clinton’s policies obviously didn’t work. What you have to do is look at Libya, look at anything you want to look at and to have it work.” ~ Donald Trump
- “If the Schengen system (of border-free travel) is destroyed, Europe will be seriously endangered politically and economically. That is why we Europeans have to invest billions in Turkey, Libya, Jordan and other countries in the region as quickly as possible everybody as much as they can.” ~ Wolfgang Schauble
- “American airstrikes have targeted ISIS in Libya before. Just last fall, another ISIS leader was killed. And I’m told there are several more training camps and we’ll likely see more strikes in the coming weeks and months. So the U.S. is watching all this carefully and will strike what they call targets of opportunity whenever they can.” ~ Tom Bowman
