When we talk about authoritarianism, we conjure up out-of-date visions from the 1930s. But we are no more likely to do authoritarian… — David Frum Copy Share Image
We're not free because other people are nice, maybe other people aren't nice that day. We're free because we expect the institutions… — David Frum Copy Share Image
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 Copy Share Image
If right and left are competing to be the biggest victim, who is competing to be the government? — David Frum Copy Share Image
An American-led overthrow of Saddam Hussein - and the replacement of the radical Baathist dictatorship with a new government more closely aligned… — David Frum Copy Share Image
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 Copy Share Image
I'm a latecomer to the environmental issue, which for years seemed to me like an excuse for more government regulation. But I… — David Frum Copy Share Image
Donald Trump has declared that he's going to divest himself from his companies and that his sons will be separated from the… — David Frum Copy Share Image
While there is an attempt by the Trump people to say that California isn't really America. California certainly seems like America to me. — David Frum 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 himself committed… — David Frum Copy Share Image
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… — David Frum 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 many people… — 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 very long… — David Frum Copy Share Image
A generation ago, or two, when there were three channels, plus PBS, and when you needed - when you needed 15 million people to… — David Frum 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 people like… — David Frum Copy Share Image
More Irishmen died fighting for Britain in World War I than died fighting against her in all of Ireland's bids for independence combined. — David Frum 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 good at… — 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 for you.… — David Frum Copy Share Image
[democrats] hated Richard Nixon, and no wonder. It was Nixon who sent Alger Hiss to jail, and Nixon who waged the Vietnam War after… — David Frum Copy Share Image
Crown Prince Rupprecht, the heir to the throne of Bavaria who commanded the army group facing the British at the Somme, was the senior… — David Frum Copy Share Image