Quotes by David Frum

About David Frum:

David J. Frum is a neoconservative Canadian-American political commentator. A speechwriter for President George W. Bush, Frum later became the author of the first "insider" book about the Bush presidency. He is a senior editor at The Atlantic and also a CNN contributor. He serves on the board of directors of the Republican Jewish Coalition, the British think tank Policy Exchange, the anti-drug policy group Smart Approaches to Marijuana, and as vice chairman and an associate fellow of the R Street Institute.
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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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Think tanks do have points of view, and they are absolutely entitled to defend them.

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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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America under 30 is a more non-whites place than America over 60. And we know that non-whites and whites vote differently.

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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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Republicans have to move to a point of greater unity.

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Speech writers are more vulnerable to vanity than any other group of people in Washington.

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I always believed as a speechwriter that if you could persuade the president to commit himself to certain words, he would feel himself committed to the ideas that underlay those words.

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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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A generation ago, or two, when there were three channels, plus PBS, and when you needed - when you needed 15 million people to make a living, the media could focus on the broad country. And most people had no choice about getting political informatio...

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Today's Republican party is too beholden to factions generally.

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Maybe it's true that people with less extreme views who are also interested in public affairs have been driven out by a marketplace that doesn't offer them anything of the tone they want to listen to.

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There are a lot of wonderful people in America who shouldn't be on the Supreme Court - and a lot who should be on the court who aren't such wonderful people.

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But the thought leaders on talk radio and Fox do more than shape opinion. Backed by their own wing of the book-publishing industry and supported by think tanks that increasingly function as public-relations agencies, conservatives have built a whole ...

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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 ...

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My view on candidates on money is unless it's proven that the donor stole the money, the campaign keeps the money.

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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.

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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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A presidential speech is always the work of many hands.

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There is no right to work in a think tank, and these are very privileged positions.

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Republicans originally thought that Fox worked for us and now we're discovering we work for Fox.

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Author Bio

  • NameDavid Frum
  • DescriptionAmerican political commentator
  • BornJune 30, 1960
  • CountryUnited States Of America
  • ProfessionJournalist; Lawyer; Author