corpus · 101 on file

Quotes

Every verified statement attributed to a politician or party in the dataset. Each carries a year, the context, and at least one source citation. The same corpus drives the Who-said-it game and the "On the record" sections on entity pages.

  • All my people love me. They would die to protect me.
    LY flag Muammar Gaddafi · 2011 A February 2011 interview with foreign correspondents in Tripoli, denying that any popular uprising was taking place. Sources: en.wikiquote.org Tier 3 — English secondary ■■□□□
  • I will cleanse Libya inch by inch, house by house, alley by alley, person by person.
    سأنظف ليبيا شبراً شبراً، بيتاً بيتاً، زنقة زنقة، فرداً فرداً.
    LY flag Muammar Gaddafi · 2011 February 22 2011 broadcast from a bombed-out Bab al-Azizia compound vowing extermination of the protest movement. The Libyan dialect word "zenga" (alley) gave the address its colloquial name. Sources: bbc.com · en.wikipedia.org Tier 1 — direct MENA-language primary ■□□□□
  • There will be rivers of blood. The Libyan people will not be defeated. We will fight until the last man, the last woman, the last bullet.
    سوف تجري أنهار من الدماء، والشعب الليبي لن يهزم، وسنقاتل حتى آخر رجل وحتى آخر امرأة وحتى آخر رصاصة.
    LY flag Saif al-Islam Gaddafi · 2011 Televised address on the sixth day of the Libyan uprising — a speech that explicitly threatened civil war within hours of mass defections in Benghazi. Sources: en.wikipedia.org Tier 1 — direct MENA-language primary ■■□□□
  • It should not be called the Security Council, it should be called the Terror Council.
    LY flag Muammar Gaddafi · 2009 UN General Assembly, 23 Sep 2009 — Gaddafi's only address to the UN. He spoke for 96 minutes, tore the UN Charter, and called the Security Council illegitimate. Became one of the strangest debate moments in UN history. Sources: gadebate.un.org Tier 2 — primary or translation ■■□□□

The verification bar for inclusion is the same one the Who-said-it game uses: only rows with verification_status other than unverified show up here — each quote carries at least one source citation and a review pass before it appears.