He is also known to take tough political stands in his newspaper essays.

I do not take a political stand on this issue!

On the air again, he began to take a political stand.

He does something often considered very dangerous, which is to take a partisan political stand.

"The government has no political stand in all of this," he said.

Opposing abortion, they said, is more than just a political stand.

"Let's be clear that we are not buying their political stand."

The point being that he was joking and not making a political stand.

We therefore wish a firm political stand to be taken.

"Taking a political stand is not something new to this village."