David Frum quotes

To balance China, the democracies will need new friends - and India with its fast-growing economy, youthful population, and democratic politics seems the obvious candidate. (David Frum)
The big winners under the American fiscal system are the rich, who pay some of the lowest taxes anywhere in the world; the old, who are the main beneficiaries of the American social service state; farmers, rural people. These are Republican constituencies.
David Frum
As thrilling as it was, speechwriting is ultimately frustrating for someone who wants to be a writer.
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We, as conservative intellectuals, should not be in the business of making excuses for bad parliamentary decisions by Republican leaders in Congress.
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What I say is I am somebody who cares about conservative ideas. I want to see them implemented in governance.
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In journalism I can only tell what happened. In fiction, I can show it.
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My mother cared more about how you reasoned than about the conclusions you reached.
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Nobody ever won an election by spitting at his political opponents.
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The thing that sustains a strong Fox network is the thing that undermines a strong Republican party.
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Look, the media are trapped by changes in the technology and business of their industry.
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If you go on TV and say there's no other country in the world where you can be born poor and become rich, you get a huge megaphone. If you tell the truth, which is that most of the studies show actually the United States is worse than anybody except Britain in upward mobility, there is no audience for you. (David Frum)
If right and left are competing to be the biggest victim, who is competing to be the government?
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Partly because of the desperate economic situation in the country, what were once the leading institutions of conservatism are constrained.
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The five million people who watch cable news are the political nation, the people who really care.
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The great power the president has is that he is the most prominent person in the biggest media event on the planet. He has the attention of the nation and the world. When he speaks, everybody listens.
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Whenever you discuss politics, it is always better to use individual names rather then the term neocon.
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Speech writers are more vulnerable to vanity than any other group of people in Washington.
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There is no right to work in a think tank, and these are very privileged positions.
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People who watch a lot of Fox come away knowing a lot less about important world events.
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People need to understand that in Washington, the process is the punishment.
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Why should we not expect self-designated environmental leaders to practice what they preach? (David Frum)
Republicans have to move to a point of greater unity.
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A novel makes it possible to understand not just events, but the people who control the events; not only their choices, but also their motives.
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I am really and truly frightened by the collapse of support for the Republican Party by the young and the educated.
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A presidential speech is always the work of many hands.
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