an ambiguous political position to seek shelter behind.

Political leaders are not and cannot reasonably be expected to be indifferent to the cruelest calumnies aimed at their character.

I think the governor's going to be in a difficult position, because during the campaign his positions were ambiguous on the issue.

Putin's Russia is our adversary and moral opposite. It is committed to the destruction of the post-war, rule-based world order built on American leadership and the primacy of our political and economic values.

Our political differences, now matter how sharply they are debated, are really quite narrow in comparison to the remarkably durable national consensus on our founding convictions.

The core political values of our free society are so deeply embedded in our collective consciousness that only a few malcontents, lunatics generally, ever dare to threaten them.