David Frum quotes - page 2

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)

America under 30 is a more non-whites place than America over 60. And we know that non-whites and whites vote differently.

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Think tanks do have points of view, and they are absolutely entitled to defend them.

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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.

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When liberals insist that only fascists will defend borders, then voters will hire fascists to do the job liberals won't do.

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As President Trump is cruel, vengeful, egoistic, ignorant, lazy, avaricious, and treacherous, so we must be kind, forgiving, responsible, informed, hardworking, generous, and patriotic.

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Events don't happen because I write a speech. I am allowed to write a speech because events are going to happen.

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My view on candidates on money is unless it's proven that the donor stole the money, the campaign keeps the money.

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The elite isn't leading anymore. It's trapped.

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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.

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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)

The thing to fear from the Trump presidency is not the bold overthrow of the Constitution, but the stealthy paralysis of governance; not the open defiance of law, but an accumulating subversion of norms; not the deployment of state power to intimidate dissidents, but the incitement of private violence to radicalize supporters. Trump operates not by strategy, but by instinct. His great skill is to sniff his opponents' vulnerabilities: "low energy", "little", "crooked", "fake". In the same way, Trump has intuited the weak points in the American political system and in American political culture. Trump gambled that Americans resent each other's differences more than they cherish their shared democracy. So far, that gamble has paid off.

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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.

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Republicans originally thought that Fox worked for us and now we're discovering we work for Fox.

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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.

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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.

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David Frum

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Photo: Simon Fraser University - Communications & Marketing, CC BY 2.0

Occupation: American Public Servant
Born: June 30, 1960
Quotes count: 41

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