David Frum
David Frum
David J. Frumis a Canadian-American neoconservative political commentator. A speechwriter for President George W. Bush, Frum later became the author of the first "insider" book about the Bush presidency. He is a senior editor at The Atlantic and also a CNN contributor. He serves on the board of directors of the Republican Jewish Coalition, the British think tank Policy Exchange, the anti-drug policy group Smart Approaches to Marijuana, and as vice chairman and an associate fellow of the R Street...
NationalityAmerican
ProfessionPublic Servant
CountryUnited States of America
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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.
Impostor: How George W. Bush Bankrupted America and Betrayed the Reagan Legacy.
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.
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.
One can shape history as much through the facts one omits as through the facts one includes.
If we say something often enough, we come to believe it. We don't usually delude others until after we have first deluded ourselves.
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.
Republicans originally thought that Fox worked for us, and now we are discovering we work for Fox
I am really and truly frightened by the collapse of support for the Republican Party by the young and the educated.
A presidential speech is always the work of many hands.
The elite isn't leading anymore. It's trapped.
Look, the media are trapped by changes in the technology and business of their industry.
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.
People need to understand that in Washington, the process is the punishment.