Words matter. These are the best David Frum Quotes, and they’re great for sharing with your friends.
As thrilling as it was, speechwriting is ultimately frustrating for someone who wants to be a writer.
In journalism I can only tell what happened. In fiction, I can show it.
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.
The five million people who watch cable news are the political nation, the people who really care.
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 the ideas that underlay those words.
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.
Whenever you discuss politics, it is always better to use individual names rather then the term neocon.
Partly because of the desperate economic situation in the country, what were once the leading institutions of conservatism are constrained.
Today’s Republican party is too beholden to factions generally.
Events don’t happen because I write a speech. I am allowed to write a speech because events are going to happen.
My mother cared more about how you reasoned than about the conclusions you reached.
Think tanks do have points of view, and they are absolutely entitled to defend them.
The elite isn’t leading anymore. It’s trapped.
What I say is I am somebody who cares about conservative ideas. I want to see them implemented in governance.
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.
America under 30 is a more non-whites place than America over 60. And we know that non-whites and whites vote differently.
I am really and truly frightened by the collapse of support for the Republican Party by the young and the educated.
My view on candidates on money is unless it’s proven that the donor stole the money, the campaign keeps the money.
If right and left are competing to be the biggest victim, who is competing to be the government?
People need to understand that in Washington, the process is the punishment.
The big winners under the American fiscal system are the rich, who pay some of the lowest taxes anywhere in the world; the old, who are the main beneficiaries of the American social service state; farmers, rural people. These are Republican constituencies.
Why should we not expect self-designated environmental leaders to practice what they preach?
A presidential speech is always the work of many hands.
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.
The great power the president has is that he is the most prominent person in the biggest media event on the planet. He has the attention of the nation and the world. When he speaks, everybody listens.
