”We needed a fight back and a fight back is under way … We will not let any phoney concerns about human rights get in the way … It is criminality pure and simple … For too long there had been a lack of focus on the complete lack of respect shown by these groups of thugs … Whatever resources the police need they will get, whatever tactics police feel they need to employ, they will have legal backing to do so.”
— David Cameron, augusti 2011
”These gangs are cockroaches … They’re nothing. They’re not 1 percent of the Libyan people … They are criminals … Leave your homes and attack them in their lairs … From a national, moral, ethical standpoint … they should stop.”
— Muammar Khaddafi, februari 2011
”Inga jämförelser i övrigt.”