[Betsy DeVos] does care about charter schools, which are public schools. She does care about choice, which is a perfectly legitimate thing to care about. It's because it's the one issue where the Democratic donor base was really energized, which was the teacher unions.

The Republican Party has become an ethnic nationalist party.

People who give money in large amount in politics are basically not altruistic.

The effectiveness of a group of people is not determined by their IQ but by how well they communicate.

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

The politics is broken up and down. And Trump may emerge from a reality TV world that is much more powerful than we think. And there is the prospect that this is where we are, which is an horrific thought.

To explain the unknown by the known is a logical procedure; to explain the known by the unknown is a form of theological lunacy.