David Frum Quotes

Republicans have been fleeced and exploited and lied to by a conservative entertainment complex.

The Canadian middle class is under less pressure than any other middle class in any developed country on the planet. So they feel good. They feel optimistic. They feel secure.

Those who seem to despise half of America will never be trusted to govern any of it. Those who cherish only the country's past will not be entrusted with its future.

The elite isn't leading anymore. It's trapped.

Republicans originally thought that Fox worked for us, and now we are discovering we work for Fox

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.

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.

Impostor: How George W. Bush Bankrupted America and Betrayed the Reagan Legacy.

We all have more at stake in the rules of the game than we do in the outcomes of the game. When that changes, that's when you begin to lose democracy.

We've all been wrong- I certainly have- and we should thank those who set us right. Not always fun, but always best in the end.

Journalism can go right up to the door of the room in which the decisions are made. A novel can go inside the room - and inside the character's heads.

We, as conservative intellectuals, should not be in the business of making excuses for bad parliamentary decisions by Republican leaders in Congress.

In journalism I can only tell what happened. In fiction, I can show it.

If we say something often enough, we come to believe it. We don't usually delude others until after we have first deluded ourselves.

Nobody ever won an election by spitting at his political opponents.

Life, as the signs in the liquor stores say, is too short to drink bad wine. And summer is too short to read bad books.

More Irishmen died fighting for Britain in World War I than died fighting against her in all of Ireland's bids for independence combined.

My mother cared more about how you reasoned than about the conclusions you reached.

So if I have two pieces of cake, do I have twice as good an experience as the first piece of cake? One of the things I've found in life is that the first piece of cake is the best.

Why should we not expect self-designated environmental leaders to practice what they preach?

If right and left are competing to be the biggest victim, who is competing to be the government?

The five million people who watch cable news are the political nation, the people who really care.

The monster has escaped Elba!" "The tyrant has landed at Cannes!" "Bonaparte meets the troops." "Napoleon approaches Paris." "His Imperial Majesty has entered the capital.

One can shape history as much through the facts one omits as through the facts one includes.

[democrats] hated Richard Nixon, and no wonder. It was Nixon who sent Alger Hiss to jail, and Nixon who waged the Vietnam War after the Democrats gave up.

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

The Iraq fight itself is probably going to go very, very fast. The shooting should be over within just a very few days from when it starts.

What I say is I am somebody who cares about conservative ideas. I want to see them implemented in governance.

I am really and truly frightened by the collapse of support for the Republican Party by the young and the educated.

Think tanks do have points of view, and they are absolutely entitled to defend them.

Whenever you discuss politics, it is always better to use individual names rather then the term neocon.

A presidential speech is always the work of many hands.

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

My mom was truly an iconic figure, a great journalist and a pioneering woman who died at 54 of cancer without ever having revealed to viewers that she was ill.

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.

Events don't happen because I write a speech. I am allowed to write a speech because events are going to happen.

And that is how we intend to destroy the enemy!" The superior shakes his head wearily. "Young man, the Soviets are our adversary. The Navy is the enemy.

I am not a person of the left. But one of the things, the central idea of democracy is that you have a bigger investment in the system as a whole than you do in any particular outcome.

I don't think that disasters have to be spectacular. They can be a slow corrosion.

Partly because of the desperate economic situation in the country, what were once the leading institutions of conservatism are constrained.

[In politics,] when there is no reason to speak, there is a reason not to speak.

One of the things we're all going to have to discover, establishment is just an abusive term for institutions. It's institutions that keep us free.

The thing that sustains a strong Fox network is the thing that undermines a strong Republican party.

People who want to wage cultural wars ought to keep in mind that cultural views often don't move at all for a very long time, but when they move they can move very fast.

Donald Trump is not supposed to save jobs one by one. He's supposed to build a sound macro economy in which private enterprises create jobs.

Look, the media are trapped by changes in the technology and business of their industry.

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

People who watch a lot of Fox come away knowing a lot less about important world events.

Republicans have to move to a point of greater unity.

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