David Frum

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

— David Frum

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

— David Frum

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

— David Frum

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

— David Frum

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

— David Frum

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

— David Frum

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

— David Frum

Republicans have to move to a point of greater unity.

— David Frum

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

— David Frum

Those who seem to despise half of America will never be trusted to govern any of it. Those who cherish only the…

— David Frum

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

— David Frum

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

— David Frum

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

— David Frum

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

— David Frum

Journalists have to do their job. And journalists have to resist emotionalism. You have to keep your cool and to continue to…

— David Frum

“The one-third of America that identifies as “conservative” will be isolated even more profoundly within an information ghetto of deception and incitement.”

— David Frum

But the thought leaders on talk radio and Fox do more than shape opinion. Backed by their own wing of the book-publishing…

— David Frum

Americans are about to discover that their system is more vulnerable than they thought. There's a lot of complacency in American politics,…

— David Frum

Yet when the hour of decision arrives, it turns out that many conservatives care as little as ever about administrative skill and…

— David Frum

“The financial and economic consequences of the stoppage of payments by the largest purchaser of goods and services on planet Earth could…

— David Frum

One of the things you can learn from a figure like Venezuela's Hugo Chavez is that if you take all the resources…

— David Frum

Civil unrest, civil turmoil is not a challenge to President Trump. It's a resource for him. He needs to create an image…

— David Frum

I think the single most important question is how do you maximize the number of children who grow up in stable two-parent…

— David Frum

We all work for media, we all make mistakes all the time. That's inevitable. What the difference between a responsible journalistic institution…

— David Frum

Donald Trump didn't have a polling operation until very late in his campaign. How did he know what to do? That the…

— David Frum

One of the great drivers of the alienation that has made Donald Trump possible is that the growth in the American economy…

— David Frum

I am a very conservative person. And there are a lot of things that Donald Trump's government or administration is doing that…

— David Frum

You've worked hard all your life. You've paid Medicare taxes for almost 30 years. But under the Republican plan, Medicare won't be…

— David Frum

The Great Society went wrong for three major reasons. First, the self-organization the Johnson administration promoted turned out to be not the…

— David Frum

One of the things that always drives any practitioner of journalism crazy is you'll run it people who say why doesn't the…

— David Frum

The Soviet Union was brought down by a strange global coalition of Western European conservatives, Eastern European nationalists, Russian liberals, Chinese communists,…

— David Frum

It's very important to understand that 21st century authoritarian rule does not look like 20th century authoritarian rule. You're not going to…

— David Frum

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

— David Frum

Donald Trump doesn't believe in much, doesn't want to do much.

— David Frum

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

— David Frum

Democracy is not about protests. Democracy is about meetings.

— David Frum

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

— David Frum

A presidential speech is always the work of many hands.

— David Frum

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

— David Frum

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

— David Frum