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David Frum
American
Public Servant
Born:
Jun 30
,
1960
Always
Party
People
Who
World
You
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Nobody ever won an election by spitting at his political opponents.
David Frum
Political
Election
Spitting
Nobody
Opponents
His
Won
Political Opponents
Ever
Partly because of the desperate economic situation in the country, what were once the leading institutions of conservatism are constrained.
David Frum
Desperate
Country
Situation
Conservatism
Once
Constrained
Economic
Economic Situation
Leading
Institutions
Partly
Because
Were
As thrilling as it was, speechwriting is ultimately frustrating for someone who wants to be a writer.
David Frum
Someone
Thrilling
Writer
Ultimately
Wants
Frustrating
Who
In journalism I can only tell what happened. In fiction, I can show it.
David Frum
Tell
Only
Journalism
Fiction
Happened
Show
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
Events
Control
Possible
Only
Also
Makes
Understand
Motives
Just
Choices
Who
Novel
There is no right to work in a think tank, and these are very privileged positions.
David Frum
Work
Think
Positions
Tank
Very
Privileged
Right
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
You
Generation
People
Political
Focus
Three
Country
Living
Channels
Broad
No Choice
Plus
About
Could
Had
Most
Make
Were
Getting
Wanted
Information
Whether
Choice
Media
Million
Million People
Two
Needed
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
Vote
More
Over
Know
Than
America
Place
Whites
Differently
Today's Republican party is too beholden to factions generally.
David Frum
Today
Party
Too
Factions
Generally
Beholden
Republican
Republican Party
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
People
Extreme
Marketplace
Out
Driven
True
Also
Affairs
Been
Offer
Listen
Maybe
Want
Anything
Interested
Public
Public Affairs
Them
Less
Views
Who
Tone
Republicans have to move to a point of greater unity.
David Frum
Unity
Point
Greater
Move
Republicans
Think tanks do have points of view, and they are absolutely entitled to defend them.
David Frum
Entitled
Think
Absolutely
Points
Tanks
Them
View
Defend
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
Politics
Democracy
Balance
Will
India
Seems
New
Economy
Democratic
Obvious
New Friends
Friends
Candidate
China
Youthful
Population
Fast-Growing
Need
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
Environmental
Government
Me
Rich
See
Spirit
Seemed
More
Economic
Environment
Environmental Issue
Attention
Like
Voters
Excuse
Issue
Issues
Years
Government Regulation
Which
Paying
Regulation
Less
Including
Societies
My mother cared more about how you reasoned than about the conclusions you reached.
David Frum
You
Mother
About
More
Reached
Conclusions
How
Than
Cared
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
Great
Woman
Cancer
Journalist
Having
She
Without
Revealed
Truly
Pioneering
Died
Iconic
Viewers
Figure
Ill
Who
Ever
The thing that sustains a strong Fox network is the thing that undermines a strong Republican party.
David Frum
Strong
Party
Network
Sustains
Republican
Republican Party
Thing
Fox
A presidential speech is always the work of many hands.
David Frum
Work
Presidential
Always
Hands
Many
Speech
Speech writers are more vulnerable to vanity than any other group of people in Washington.
David Frum
People
Group
Other
Vanity
More
Writers
Vulnerable
Than
Any
Washington
Speech
Whenever you discuss politics, it is always better to use individual names rather then the term neocon.
David Frum
Politics
You
Better
Rather
Individual
Term
Names
Always
Discuss
Whenever
Then
Use
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.
David Frum
You
Words
President
Those
Would
Could
He
Feel
Ideas
Himself
Always
Commit
Committed
Persuade
Certain
Believed
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