Democracy is not about protests. Democracy is about meetings. — David Frum Democracy Copy Share Image
Impostor: How George W. Bush Bankrupted America and Betrayed the Reagan Legacy. — David Frum America Copy Share Image
In America, you will see in area after area, media under pressure, businesses under pressure not to criticize Donald Trump lest he… — David Frum America Copy Share Image
As thrilling as it was, speechwriting is ultimately frustrating for someone who wants to be a writer. — David Frum Copy Share Image
Events don't happen because I write a speech. I am allowed to write a speech because events are going to happen. — David Frum Communication Copy Share Image
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 America Copy Share Image
Journalists have to do their job. And journalists have to resist emotionalism. You have to keep your cool and to continue to… — David Frum Jobs Copy Share Image
“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 Europe Copy Share Image
Canada has a real civil service, which the United States doesn't have, an independent civil service. Canada also has a stronger federal… — David Frum Canada Copy Share Image
My mom was truly an iconic figure, a great journalist and a pioneering woman who died at 54 of cancer without ever… — David Frum Cancer 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
Yet when the hour of decision arrives, it turns out that many conservatives care as little as ever about administrative skill and… — David Frum Accomplishment Copy Share Image
“The financial and economic consequences of the stoppage of payments by the largest purchaser of goods and services on planet Earth could… — David Frum Money Copy Share Image
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 Aliens Copy Share Image
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 Copy Share Image
When we talk about authoritarianism, we conjure up out-of-date visions from the 1930s.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
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 Copy Share Image
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 Care 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 Administration 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 Computer Copy Share Image
The Soviet Union was brought down by a strange global coalition of Western European conservatives, Eastern European nationalists, Russian liberals, Chinese communists,… — David Frum Copy Share Image
One of the great drivers of the alienation that has made Donald Trump possible is that the growth in the American economy… — David Frum Alienation Copy Share Image
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 Copy Share Image
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 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
“Anyone who can be cool about his first visit to the Oval Office has lost so much body heat that rigor mortis… — David Frum Body heat Copy Share Image
A novel makes it possible to understand not just events, but the people who control the events; not only their choices, but… — David Frum Books Copy Share Image
If right and left are competing to be the biggest victim, who is competing to be the government? — David Frum Competing 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… — David Frum Copy Share Image
Those who seem to despise half of America will never be trusted to govern any of it. Those who cherish only the… — David Frum America 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
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
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
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
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
One can shape history as much through the facts one omits as through the facts one includes. — David Frum Facts Copy Share Image
Republicans have been fleeced and exploited and lied to by a conservative entertainment complex. — David Frum Complexes 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
