In journalism I can only tell what happened. In fiction, I can show it. David Frum More Quotes by David Frum More Quotes From David Frum Think tanks do have points of view, and they are absolutely entitled to defend them. David Frum tanks views thinking Life, as the signs in the liquor stores say, is too short to drink bad wine. And summer is too short to read bad books. David Frum wine summer book What I say is I am somebody who cares about conservative ideas. I want to see them implemented in governance. David Frum who-cares want ideas So little of what makes a democracy work is written down. So much of it is just the things you don't do. There are a lot of things that a prime minister or a president can do and they don't do them because it never occurs to them to do them. David Frum democracy president littles The business model of the conservative media is built on two elements: provoking the audience into a fever of indignation (to keep them watching) and fomenting mistrust of all other information sources (so that they never change the channel). David Frum information media two [In politics,] when there is no reason to speak, there is a reason not to speak. David Frum no-reason speak reason Yet when the hour of decision arrives, it turns out that many conservatives care as little as ever about administrative skill and executive accomplishment. Our party and our movement overwhelmingly respond to symbolic cues. Sarah Palin is exciting and appealing. But what kind of executive is she? None of us have even the remotest idea. David Frum party skills ideas Partly because of the desperate economic situation in the country, what were once the leading institutions of conservatism are constrained. David Frum desperate economic country We, as conservative intellectuals, should not be in the business of making excuses for bad parliamentary decisions by Republican leaders in Congress. David Frum conservative leader decision Anybody who imagines that an election can be won under these circumstances by banging on about William Ayers and Jeremiah Wright is ... to put it mildly ... severely under-estimating the electoral importance of pocketbook issues. We conservatives are sending a powerful, inadvertent message with this negative campaign against Barack Obama's associations and former associations: that we lack a positive agenda of our own and that we don't care about the economic issues that are worrying American voters. David Frum issues powerful worry Whenever you discuss politics, it is always better to use individual names rather then the term neocon. David Frum individual use names And that is how we intend to destroy the enemy!" The superior shakes his head wearily. "Young man, the Soviets are our adversary. The Navy is the enemy. David Frum historical men history Donald Trump, as a businessman, he's not much of a builder and he's not much of dealmaker and he certainly isn't very good at making expenses line up with income. But he is a marketing genius. He must have seen an empty market niche that no one but him filled. David Frum niche marketing genius World War II proved a hypothesis that Alexis de Tocqueville advanced a century before: the war-fighting potential of a democracy is at its greatest when war is most intense; at its weakest when war is most limited. This is a lesson with enduring relevance to our own times - and our own wars. David Frum fighting war history More Irishmen died fighting for Britain in World War I than died fighting against her in all of Ireland's bids for independence combined. David Frum fighting war history 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. And the big shock to me has been that although the president said the words, he just did not absorb the ideas. And that is the root of, maybe, everything. David Frum president roots ideas The system has evolved to protect parties from people like Donald Trump. It really is true that people without well-established public records, without proven capability in public service, without tested beliefs and at least apparently under the influence of a foreign power, such people are screened out by major parties. David Frum party belief people I am really and truly frightened by the collapse of support for the Republican Party by the young and the educated. David Frum republican support party Events don't happen because I write a speech. I am allowed to write a speech because events are going to happen. David Frum speech events writing The Iraq fight itself is probably going to go very, very fast. The shooting should be over within just a very few days from when it starts. David Frum shooting iraq fighting
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