Libyan leader Colonel Muammar Gaddafi has earned his reputation for being wackily quotable. In this LIFE gallery, we look at some of his strangest remarks. First up: "Their ages are 17. They give them pills at night, they put hallucinatory pills in their drinks, their milk, their coffee, their Nescafe." (Claiming that February 2011 protesters are acting on drugs given to them by al-Qaeda operatives.) Here: Gaddafi has a cappuccino in Rome in 2009. View the full gallery, Gaddafi's Craziest Quotes, at Life.com.

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