James B. Steinberg: “Qadhafi had lost the legitimacy to lead, and he had to go to allow the Libyan people to reclaim their own future.”

Even in our own system, we recognize that speech has to support civil society and be part of that.

America thrives best when all those around the world who share our dreams and our values have an opportunity to seek the blessings we have fought so hard to secure.

We have made clear that we thought that the election was not conducted fairly, openly, that we spoke out against the oppression, we spoke out against the violence.

I think we have had a consistent record in saying that there are circumstances in which parties fail to respect democracy.