I was waiting for us to deal with it as a nation, in a social or political way.

"I've never dealt with national defense in a political way and I'm not about to start now," he said.

That at least has been the political way of things in recent election years, particularly on the Democratic side.

Today, the idea of service is still paramount, but students give back in more personal, less political ways.

So you begin to think about your children and loved ones in political ways.

But some significant Hollywood women have opted to make their own political way.

Another security official later said the riot was "in no way political."

That, in some ways, was the political way to look at this.

We have a political way of looking at things, and they're in a different box.

"I don't see a political way out," the director added.