Top 40 Quotes by David Frum

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.

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.

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.

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

The thing that sustains a strong Fox network is the thing that undermines a strong Republican party.

What I say is I am somebody who cares about conservative ideas. I want to see them implemented in governance.

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.

If right and left are competing to be the biggest victim, who is competing to be the government?

Partly because of the desperate economic situation in the country, what were once the leading institutions of conservatism are constrained.

I am really and truly frightened by the collapse of support for the Republican Party by the young and the educated.