Quotes By David Frum
Maybe it's true that people with less extreme views who are also interested in public affairs have been driven out by a marketplace that doesn't offer them anything of the tone they want to listen to.
David Frum
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 viewers that she was ill.
David Frum
Journalism can go right up to the door of the room in which the decisions are made. A novel can go inside the room - and inside the character's heads.
David Frum
Speech writers are more vulnerable to vanity than any other group of people in Washington.
David Frum
A generation ago, or two, when there were three channels, plus PBS, and when you needed - when you needed 15 million people to make a living, the media could focus on the broad country. And most people had no choice about getting political information. It was there at 6:30 whether you wanted it or not.
David Frum
So if I have two pieces of cake, do I have twice as good an experience as the first piece of cake? One of the things I've found in life is that the first piece of cake is the best.
David Frum
If you go on TV and say there's no other country in the world where you can be born poor and become rich, you get a huge megaphone. If you tell the truth, which is that most of the studies show actually the United States is worse than anybody except Britain in upward mobility, there is no audience for you.
David Frum
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
Whenever you discuss politics, it is always better to use individual names rather then the term neocon.
David Frum
I am really and truly frightened by the collapse of support for the Republican Party by the young and the educated.
David Frum
There are a lot of wonderful people in America who shouldn't be on the Supreme Court - and a lot who should be on the court who aren't such wonderful people.
David Frum
My view on candidates on money is unless it's proven that the donor stole the money, the campaign keeps the money.
David Frum
I'm a latecomer to the environmental issue, which for years seemed to me like an excuse for more government regulation. But I can see that in rich societies, voters are paying less attention to economic issues and more to issues of the spirit, including the environment.
David Frum
Events don't happen because I write a speech. I am allowed to write a speech because events are going to happen.
David Frum
What I say is I am somebody who cares about conservative ideas. I want to see them implemented in governance.
David Frum
The thing that sustains a strong Fox network is the thing that undermines a strong Republican party.
David Frum
To balance China, the democracies will need new friends - and India with its fast-growing economy, youthful population, and democratic politics seems the obvious candidate.
David Frum
Partly because of the desperate economic situation in the country, what were once the leading institutions of conservatism are constrained.
David Frum
We, as conservative intellectuals, should not be in the business of making excuses for bad parliamentary decisions by Republican leaders in Congress.
David Frum