Many protesters in Egypt urged the United States to take a firmer stand against its longtime ally.

Egyptian protester: “If the President Obama said directly to Mubarak, 'You have to leave and leave the country to decide what they want,' the peace would be back to Egypt in one second, if he said this. We all, all of us — we go back. I am here. This is — I don’t know how many days. I am here from Friday. I left Sinai. I have a restaurant in Sinai. I left the restaurant, and I came here, to be here. And I never come back to home, to my home, [until] Mubarak go away. He must go.”