Now they ask themselves whether these virtues need apply to a country's media, as well as its president. There are few people in Congress who could withstand the kind of scrutiny that Clinton has been under. I don't know that you have to tell lies, said Miles. A politician has to wrestle with ambiguity in a way that the evangelical community is not willing to wrestle with ambiguity. We still want a black and white world.
Politicians have to operate in a gray world.
Politics is the art of compromise. You can compromise with integrity. I knew him as a capable leader before. They want to know that this is a person who is governed by a set of values and commitments. Some people say they just want this thing to go away.