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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.

David Frum

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David Frum
Age: 64
Born: 1960
Born: June 30
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City of Toronto
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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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Donald Trump doesn't believe in much, doesn't want to do much.
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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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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.
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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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As thrilling as it was, speechwriting is ultimately frustrating for someone who wants to be a writer.
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Canada has a real civil service, which the United States doesn't have, an independent civil service. Canada also has a stronger federal system.
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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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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 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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An American-led overthrow of Saddam Hussein - and the replacement of the radical Baathist dictatorship with a new government more closely aligned with the United States would put America more wholly in charge of the region than any power since the Ottomans, or maybe even the Romans.
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[democrats] hated Richard Nixon, and no wonder. It was Nixon who sent Alger Hiss to jail, and Nixon who waged the Vietnam War after the Democrats gave up.
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By abrogating all moral standards in their war against Israel, Arab and Muslim leaders initiated a process of moral collapse that has ended by soaking their own societies in blood. The terror they intended to inflict only upon others has rebounded with a hundred times greater horror upon their own lands.
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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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Donald Trump is not supposed to save jobs one by one. He's supposed to build a sound macro economy in which private enterprises create jobs.
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What I say is I am somebody who cares about conservative ideas. I want to see them implemented in governance.
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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.
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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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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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[In politics,] when there is no reason to speak, there is a reason not to speak.
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