That's why we have made clear that our political objective here is to make sure that Qadhafi goes.

there's reports he's been implicated in things like assassination attempts against and plots against other heads of state?

at the end of all this engagement, if he survives we are going to have on our hands a potentially emboldened, definitely angry dictator.

Congressional leadership in both parties have strongly called for a no-fly zone and other actions and nothing has happened.

Well, when is that resolution going to happen? After the bloodbath, in the middle of the bloodbath?

But to say we are pressing the United Nations and that is energetic action, the Security Council, is to basically say the United States--and to say that is what we are going to limit ourselves to, what we are basically saying is the United…

the United States, quite frankly, looks weak in this endeavor, it looks unwilling or maybe even unable to act in this capacity.

The President of the United States has specifically said Qaddafi must go, but has done nothing since saying that.

Gang activity is a threat to U.S. national security, and so working to reverse its growth would be one of my priorities.

Libya, in fact, was approved by 145 of the U.N. Member States, which is appalling since Libya, today, is what they were back then, too.

I am concerned about a trend toward autocracy that threatens many nations in the hemisphere.