I'm a pundit. I'm, like, paid to be a narcissistic blowhard and be in front of the camera.

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

The message of the summoned life is that you don't need to panic if you don't yet know what you want to do with your life. But you probably want to throw yourselves into circumstances where the summons will come.

It’s only useful to ask, what wisdom have you learned from your misjudgments that will help you going forward?

Donald Trump is sort of an Orwellian figure, an authoritarian figure who is twisting words in an Orwellian manner, "1984," to exercise power and control people's minds, or is he a 5-year-old who has an ego that needs to be fed, and the universe has to warp around his ego needs so he can feel good about himself, and everybody has to produce photos to make the monarch feel like he's made of gold.

Politics is based on social identity, and so, again, there is going to be differences between rural and urban and between left and right.

I really think of [Donald] Trump erratic. I think that was the big message that came out. The positive agenda for Hillary [Clinton] was a little less vibrant.