09/07/2009
https://www.presidency.ucsb.edu...
"President Obama signaling he is considering arming the Libyan opposition."
"I'm not ruling it out, but I'm also not ruling it in. We're still making an assessment partly about what Gadhafi's forces are -- are going to be doing."
"didn't just come from laying down infrastructure or pavement. They came from businesses that opened near a town's new train station or the new off ramp."
"At this particular moment, we were faced with the prospect of violence on a horrific scale. We had a unique ability to stop that violence, an international mandate for action, a broad coalition prepar..."