Able Quote by Craig Ferguson

Here's why Sarah Palin says she won't be running for president. She says she can be more effective at getting others elected by not…

— David Letterman

Palin was a political Hail Mary, a long bomb in the closing minutes of a game that John McCain and Co. were certain to…

— Dee Dee Myers

I believe Sarah Palin is a true statesman, whose experience as a failed vice presidential candidate, half-term governor and eight-episode reality star has fully…

— Stephen Colbert

To be completely honest, I don't believe that Palin has any intention of actually running for president. Granted, trying to predict Sarah Palin's next…

— Meghan McCain

I don't know Gov. Palin. I've certainly seen her, since she came on the scene, you know, running with John McCain.

— Linda McMahon

For Sarah Palin, the least experienced on the world stage, the stress of maintaining the fiction that she was qualified to be vice president…

— Tina Brown

I could not think higher of Governor Palin. She is a force of nature and has inspired a generation of women to really get…

— Steve Bannon

Sarah Palin, who with 17 months remaining in her single term as Alaska's governor quit the only serious office she has ever held, is…

— George Will

“It was no small thing that Palin was chosen exclusively by men, in an effort to win women, her strategy devised by men who…

— Anne Kornblut

The Sarah Palin choice both its timing and the fact that it was her, it was really an audacious strategic move by the McCain…

— Rachel Maddow

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

— David Brooks

A very successful woman, Palin has the wherewithal to move forward consciously. What she did was move forward thoughtlessly and overconfidently, without considering that…

— Rebecca Traister