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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

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David Frum
Age: 64
Born: 1960
Born: June 30
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The habit of going to your congressman's town hall and asking questions, that's powerful in a way that shouting slogans or getting arrested is not, that is completely counterproductive.
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So if I have two pieces of cake, do I have twice as good an experience as the first piece of cake? One of the things I've found in life is that the first piece of cake is the best.
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We're not free because other people are nice, maybe other people aren't nice that day. We're free because we expect the institutions of government to work impersonally. That we expect people in government to understand they don't work for the president or the prime minister, they work for the government. And the government is always there.
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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.
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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.
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So long as Donald Trump is powerful and popular, Fox News is going to achieve an advertising bonanza unheard of in the era of modern cable, because people will pay them to talk to the president.
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People who want to wage cultural wars ought to keep in mind that cultural views often don't move at all for a very long time, but when they move they can move very fast.
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The Canadian middle class is under less pressure than any other middle class in any developed country on the planet. So they feel good. They feel optimistic. They feel secure.
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People who watch a lot of Fox come away knowing a lot less about important world events.
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So little of what makes a democracy work is written down. So much of it is just the things you don't do. There are a lot of things that a prime minister or a president can do and they don't do them because it never occurs to them to do them.
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I am really and truly frightened by the collapse of support for the Republican Party by the young and the educated.
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The thing that sustains a strong Fox network is the thing that undermines a strong Republican party.
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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.
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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.
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I think the single most important question is how do you maximize the number of children who grow up in stable two-parent households. We know in all kinds of ways it makes a huge difference to how kids come out and we are hardening into a caste society where some kids do better in all kinds of ways because they have two parents and others don't.
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We live in an age of de-democratization. The number of democracies in the world has been going backwards since 2005, and even many existing democracies including in Europe have been becoming less democratic.
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Speech writers are more vulnerable to vanity than any other group of people in Washington.
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Republicans have to move to a point of greater unity.
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Nobody ever won an election by spitting at his political opponents.
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Trump is not just unlike a Republican, he's unlike a presidential candidate. The whole elaborate presidential process is designed to screen out people like Donald Trump. And that process broke down in ways quite unlike anything in the recent experience of the United States.
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