There are a lot of wonderful people in America who shouldn't be on the Supreme Court - and a lot who should… — David Frum America Copy Share Image
My view on candidates on money is unless it's proven that the donor stole the money, the campaign keeps the money. — David Frum Campaigns Copy Share Image
To balance China, the democracies will need new friends - and India with its fast-growing economy, youthful population, and democratic politics seems… — David Frum Balance Copy Share Image
Why should we not expect self-designated environmental leaders to practice what they preach? — David Frum Environmental Copy Share Image
So if I have two pieces of cake, do I have twice as good an experience as the first piece of cake?… — David Frum Copy Share Image
And that is how we intend to destroy the enemy!" The superior shakes his head wearily. "Young man, the Soviets are our… — David Frum Adversaries Copy Share Image
The monster has escaped Elba!" "The tyrant has landed at Cannes!" "Bonaparte meets the troops." "Napoleon approaches Paris." "His Imperial Majesty has… — David Frum Approach Copy Share Image
Life, as the signs in the liquor stores say, is too short to drink bad wine. And summer is too short to… — David Frum Book Copy Share Image
Maybe it's true that people with less extreme views who are also interested in public affairs have been driven out by a… — David Frum Affair Copy Share Image
Reagan survived the Iran-Contra scandal because the elements of it that were illegal (aiding anti-communist Nicaraguans) were popular and the things that… — David Frum Anti communist Copy Share Image
Modern authoritarianism, as it's growing inside Europe and now coming to the United States, rests much more on the use of power… — David Frum Authoritarianism Copy Share Image
No one is murdered in Hungary and there are no illegal arrests, but people have begun again, when they talk to you… — David Frum Hungary Copy Share Image
I always believed as a speechwriter that if you could persuade the president to commit himself to certain words, he would feel… — David Frum Copy Share Image
The system we have is one that protects my rights under a president I don't approve. That tomorrow we'll do the same… — David Frum Commitment Copy Share Image
The system has evolved to protect parties from people like Donald Trump. It really is true that people without well-established public records,… — David Frum Belief Copy Share Image
World War II proved a hypothesis that Alexis de Tocqueville advanced a century before: the war-fighting potential of a democracy is at… — David Frum Alexis Copy Share Image
Normally what happens in a new presidency is the president has a big agenda, and Congress is full of people with human… — David Frum Agendas Copy Share Image
Anybody who imagines that an election can be won under these circumstances by banging on about William Ayers and Jeremiah Wright is… — David Frum Agendas Copy Share Image
Democracy takes work. That's the thing we're really finding out, that, you know, in many ways, you know, the past two decades… — David Frum Achievement Copy Share Image
One of the reasons I've been interested in the US health care is that here is something you can do, that could… — David Frum Burden Copy Share Image
Elites are inevitable in politics. That is how politics is going to work. The question is, are your elites responsible, public-spirited? Do… — David Frum Elites Copy Share Image
If you watch a movie from between the end of the Second World War and the mid-1970s, whenever anyone steps out in… — David Frum Clone Copy Share Image
We've all been wrong- I certainly have- and we should thank those who set us right. Not always fun, but always best… — David Frum Copy Share Image
People who want to wage cultural wars ought to keep in mind that cultural views often don't move at all for a… — David Frum Copy Share Image
Journalism can go right up to the door of the room in which the decisions are made. A novel can go inside… — David Frum Books Copy Share Image
Whenever you discuss politics, it is always better to use individual names rather then the term neocon. — David Frum Individual Copy Share Image
One can shape history as much through the facts one omits as through the facts one includes. — David Frum Facts Copy Share Image
What I say is I am somebody who cares about conservative ideas. I want to see them implemented in governance. — David Frum Copy Share Image
Republicans have been fleeced and exploited and lied to by a conservative entertainment complex. — David Frum Complexes Copy Share Image
So little of what makes a democracy work is written down. So much of it is just the things you don't do.… — David Frum Copy Share Image
If you go on TV and say there's no other country in the world where you can be born poor and become… — David Frum Audience Copy Share Image
Trump is not just unlike a Republican, he's unlike a presidential candidate. The whole elaborate presidential process is designed to screen out… — David Frum Copy Share Image
Donald Trump is behaving in an extremely provocative way toward China, having first cancelled the TPP and alienated America's friends in the… — David Frum Allies Copy Share Image
Donald Trump, as a businessman, he's not much of a builder and he's not much of dealmaker and he certainly isn't very… — David Frum Copy Share Image
The business model of the conservative media is built on two elements: provoking the audience into a fever of indignation (to keep… — David Frum Audience Copy Share Image
One might almost say, to adapt von Clausewitz, that modern warfare is PR by other means. And war-winning strategies mean that modern… — David Frum Army Copy Share Image
One of the things that really has gone wrong in modern politics, one of the things that made Trump possible was that… — David Frum Dramatic Copy Share Image
I always believed as a speechwriter that if you could persuade the president to commit himself to certain words, he would feel… — David Frum Copy Share Image
Democracy requires you to learn how to lose as well as how to exercise power when you win. And that requires restraint… — David Frum Democracy Copy Share Image
By abrogating all moral standards in their war against Israel, Arab and Muslim leaders initiated a process of moral collapse that has… — David Frum Copy Share Image
