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• We, as conservative intellectuals, should not be in the business of making excuses for bad parliamentary decisions by Republican leaders in Congress.

  David Frum

  Decision, Leader, Conservative

  "David Frum On Republicans And Health Care". "All Things Considered" with Robert Siegel, www.npr.org. April 1, 2010.

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• Donald Trump's big goal is to become the richest man in the world, abusing the powers of the presidency.

  David Frum

  Men, Goal, World

  Source: www.cbc.ca

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• That is the way successful countries, and Canada has been one of the most successful countries over the past quarter century, they operate. That when you win, you win within limits, when you lose, you accept the outcome.

  David Frum

  Country, Successful, Winning

  Source: www.cbc.ca

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• President Trump watches a lot of television. I mean, really a lot. His favourite channel is Fox. Now just imagine somebody wants put a message in front of the president. You can hire a lobbyist or you can buy a minute on Fox or you can even pay somebody at a think tank to articulate your message and then pay a booker at that think tank to get that person on Fox and put the thought directly in the president's ear.

  David Frum

  Mean, Thinking, President

  Source: www.cbc.ca

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• We all work for media, we all make mistakes all the time. That's inevitable. What the difference between a responsible journalistic institution is, does it care whether it makes mistakes or not? And does it correct them?

  David Frum

  Mistake, Differences, Media

  Source: www.cbc.ca

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• One of the things you can learn from a figure like Venezuela's Hugo Chavez is that if you take all the resources of the state for yourself, you don't build much of a constituency and you have to rely on repression, and repression is difficult in the modern world.

  David Frum

  Venezuela, World, Modern

  Source: www.cbc.ca

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• Look, the media are trapped by changes in the technology and business of their industry.

  David Frum

  Technology, Media, Looks

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• 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

  Ideas, Roots, President

  "Neo Culpa". Interview with David Rose, www.vanityfair.com. December, 2006.

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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.

  David Frum

  Mom, Cancer, Figures

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• Reagan survived the Iran-Contra scandal because the elements of it that were illegal (aiding anti-communist Nicaraguans) were popular and the things that were unpopular (arming the Iranians) were quite legal.

  David Frum

  War, Iran, Elements

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• By abrogating all moral standards in their war against Israel, Arab and Muslim leaders initiated a process of moral collapse that has ended by soaking their own societies in blood. The terror they intended to inflict only upon others has rebounded with a hundred times greater horror upon their own lands.

  David Frum

  War, Israel, Blood

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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.

  David Frum

  America, People, Wonderful

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• Why should we not expect self-designated environmental leaders to practice what they preach?

  David Frum

  Self, Practice, Leader

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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.

  David Frum

  Government, Years, Issues

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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.

  David Frum

  Writing, Events, Speech

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• Speech writers are more vulnerable to vanity than any other group of people in Washington.

  David Frum

  Vanity, People, Groups

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• 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

  Country, Media, Two

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• A presidential speech is always the work of many hands.

  David Frum

  Hands, Presidential, Speech

  "The Bush Administration is Caught Half-Way Across a Bridge". Interview with Georg Mascolo, www.spiegel.de. January 23, 2007.

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• The Soviet Union was brought down by a strange global coalition of Western European conservatives, Eastern European nationalists, Russian liberals, Chinese communists, and Afghan Islamic reactionaries, to name only a few. Many of these discordant groups disliked the United States intensely. But Americans were able to mobilize them to direct their ire at the Soviet Union first.

  David Frum

  War, Islamic, Names

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• 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

  War, Fighting, History

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• 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

  War, Fighting, History

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• 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

  Men, History, Historical

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• A novel makes it possible to understand not just events, but the people who control the events; not only their choices, but also their motives.

  David Frum

  People, Choices, Events

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• The monster has escaped Elba!" "The tyrant has landed at Cannes!" "Bonaparte meets the troops." "Napoleon approaches Paris." "His Imperial Majesty has entered the capital.

  David Frum

  Tyrants, Paris, History

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• 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

  America, Vote, Knows

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