Crush Quote by Hisham Matar

We have defeated Gaddafi on the battlefield; now we must defeat him in our imagination. We must not allow his legacy to corrupt our…

— Hisham Matar

Gaddafi's a great bloke. The media only show the bad things. I used to go round his house. His son's a super simple guy.…

— Luis de Agustini

Bashar Assad has been so brutal toward the Sunni within Syria that he created the space that led to the people of Syria themselves…

— Marco Rubio

Let's all recognize that, in a world full of disgusting dictators, Bashar Assad maybe ranks at the top. This is a guy, in order…

— Jake Tapper

Yes, Gaddafi was a ruthless dictator and supporter of terrorism during his 40-year reign in Libya, but he had become an ally of the…

— Pete Hoekstra

The fact of the matter is that if we were going to do anything about Gaddafi, it should have been at the beginning. And…

— Lawrence Eagleburger

Obama saying Gaddafi must go. Putting it upfront like that... it's not very helpful.

— Kofi Annan

For more than four decades, the Libyan people have been ruled by a tyrant - Moammar Gaddafi. He has denied his people freedom, exploited…

— Barack Obama

Libyans are deeply unsettled by Gaddafi and his regime's careless contempt for human life. The dictatorship is willing to employ any methods necessary to…

— Hisham Matar

The United States treated Gaddafi as an enemy due to his support for terrorism against us, until a rapprochement of sorts began under Pres.…

— Elliott Abrams

[Bashar] Assad has made a series of choices ever since then that is literally destroying his country.

— John F. Kerry

My question right now would be to Colonel Gaddafi, which is: 'What on earth do you think you are doing? Stop it.'

— David Cameron