Palin is smart, politically skilled, courageous and likable. Her convention and debate performances were impressive.

Plunder is morally wrong. It ruins your credibility.

Democrats in environmental agencies tend to be more sensitive to environmental harm. And Republicans tend to be more sensitive to business harm.

The more attention Hillary Clinton gives to the country, the less people seem to like her.

It's important for presidents to emotionally connect, with the country in times of crisis, but also with people in Washington. If you can't emotionally connect - and [Barack] Obama is not the greatest, but he can at least do it - then people won't be with you when the times are hard.

I take a benign view of digital connectedness. I notice in most young people's lives, Facebook and such doesn't replace normal dating or hanging out, it just facilitates it.

I think Mitch Daniels, the former governor of Indiana was a case of that, who was an outstanding administrator.