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• Republicans have to move to a point of greater unity.

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

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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.

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• Today’s Republican party is too beholden to factions generally.

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

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

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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 information. It was there at 6:30 whether you wanted it or not.

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

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

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

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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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• 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.

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

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• As thrilling as it was, speechwriting is ultimately frustrating for someone who wants to be a writer.

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• People need to understand that in Washington, the process is the punishment.

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David Frum (40)

Birth:	30th June, 1960
Nationality:	American, Canadian
Profession:	Editor, Journalist, Lawyer, Writer, Political Analyst

About

David J. Frum was born in Toronto, Ontario, Canada. He is a Canadian - born American political analyst, writer, lawyer, journalist and editor. In January 2003 Frum released The Right Man: The Surprise Presidency of George W. Bush, the first insider account of the Bush presidency. He is a senior editor at The Atlantic and also a CNN contributor. At Yale University, he simultaneously earned Bachelor of Arts and Master of Arts degrees in history, graduating in 1982. He earned his Juris Doctor at Harvard Law School in 1987. Frum's first book, Dead Right, was released in 1994.  Frum's first novel, Patriots, was published in April 2012.

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