David Frum Quotes

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

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  Topics in Country

• The elite isn’t leading anymore. It’s trapped.

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• 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.

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  Topics in Service

  Tags in Republican

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

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  Topics in Politics

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

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

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• A presidential speech is always the work of many hands.

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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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  Tags in Republican

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

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  Topics in Work

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

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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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• 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.

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  Topics in Life

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• 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.

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

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• I’m a latecomer to the environmental issue, which for years seemed to me like an excuse for more government regulation. But I can see that in rich societies, voters are paying less attention to economic issues and more to issues of the spirit, including the environment.

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  Topics in Environment

  Tags in Like, Government

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

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  Topics in Environment

  Tags in Self

• 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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• 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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  Tags in People, Wonderful

• 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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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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