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
The talking point was 'Let's wait for the hearings because we don't know anything,' ... Well, I knew something. It was my responsibility. This was not fun. I take no pleasure in this. The long-term consequences for me are probably not going to be favorable.
It wasn't that she didn't do the job right, ... but the way she did the job rules her out of being a person you would think of as capable of handling this enormous responsibility.
Why be thrifty when your old age and health care are provided for, no matter how profligate you act in your youth? Why be prudent when the state insures your bank deposits, replaces your flooded-out house, buys all the wheat you can grow? ... Why be diligent when half of your earnings are taken from you and given to the idle?
In journalism I can only tell what happened. In fiction, I can show it.
Speech writers are more vulnerable to vanity than any other group of people in Washington.
Whenever you discuss politics, it is always better to use individual names rather then the term neocon.
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.
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.
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.
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