David Frum Quotes

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• If we say something often enough, we come to believe it. We don't usually delude others until after we have first deluded ourselves.
• 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…
• But the thought leaders on talk radio and Fox do more than shape opinion. Backed by their own wing of the book-publishing industry and supported…
• Those who seem to despise half of America will never be trusted to govern any of it. Those who cherish only the country's past will…
• A generation ago, or two, when there were three channels, plus PBS, and when you needed - when you needed 15 million people to make…
• 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 there for you.…
• A presidential speech is always the work of many hands.
• America under 30 is a more non-whites place than America over 60. And we know that non-whites and whites vote differently.
• 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.
• As thrilling as it was, speechwriting is ultimately frustrating for someone who wants to be a writer.
• Events don't happen because I write a speech. I am allowed to write a speech because events are going to happen.
• In journalism I can only tell what happened. In fiction, I can show it.
• I am really and truly frightened by the collapse of support for the Republican Party by the young and the educated.
• 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…
• Republicans originally thought that Fox worked for us, and now we are discovering we work for Fox
• More Irishmen died fighting for Britain in World War I than died fighting against her in all of Ireland's bids for independence combined.
• World War II proved a hypothesis that Alexis de Tocqueville advanced a century before: the war-fighting potential of a democracy is at its greatest when…
• We've all been wrong- I certainly have- and we should thank those who set us right. Not always fun, but always best in the end.
• An American-led overthrow of Saddam Hussein - and the replacement of the radical Baathist dictatorship with a new government more closely aligned with the United…
• And that is how we intend to destroy the enemy!" The superior shakes his head wearily. "Young man, the Soviets are our adversary. The Navy…

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