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
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
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
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
Whenever you discuss politics, it is always better to use individual names rather then the term neocon. — David Frum Individual 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
One of the questions I often get asked is, "Were you surprised that Trump won?" I always answer the same way: "I… — David Frum Surprised Copy Share Image
The five million people who watch cable news are the political nation, the people who really care. — David Frum Cable news Copy Share Image
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 American politics Copy Share Image
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 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 Access Copy Share Image
We live in an age of de-democratization. The number of democracies in the world has been going backwards since 2005, and even… — David Frum Age Copy Share Image
The big winners under the American fiscal system are the rich, who pay some of the lowest taxes anywhere in the world;… — David Frum Copy Share Image
“The first decade of the twenty-first century was a crazy bookend to the twentieth, opening with a second Pearl Harbor and ending… — David Frum Copy Share Image
I am not a person of the left. But one of the things, the central idea of democracy is that you have… — 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… — David Frum 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
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
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
I keep telling my American friends, "If you think of Donald Trump as only something that is happening inside the United States,… — David Frum Country Copy Share Image
I do think Hillary Clinton, I mean the Clintons, I've got a lot of critiques of the Clinton foundation. I do think… — David Frum Copy Share Image
Donald Trump's big goal is to become the richest man in the world, abusing the powers of the presidency. — David Frum Copy Share Image
Partly because of the desperate economic situation in the country, what were once the leading institutions of conservatism are constrained. — David Frum Conservatism Copy Share Image
We all have more at stake in the rules of the game than we do in the outcomes of the game. When… — David Frum Democracy Copy Share Image
Republicans originally thought that Fox worked for us, and now we are discovering we work for Fox — David Frum Democracy Copy Share Image
“The ceiling in the mess was very low, not even eight feet. You can feel the weight of the West Wing above… — David Frum Copy Share Image
I am really and truly frightened by the collapse of support for the Republican Party by the young and the educated. — David Frum Collapse 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… — David Frum Democracy 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
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
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
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
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 Free people Copy Share Image
So long as Donald Trump is powerful and popular, Fox News is going to achieve an advertising bonanza unheard of in the… — David Frum Copy Share Image
You can have these fake engagements, these virtual engagements that substitute for actual engagements. You don't have to participate, you can hit… — 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 Attention Copy Share Image
A generation ago, or two, when there were three channels, plus PBS, and when you needed - when you needed 15 million… — David Frum 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
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