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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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David Frum
Age: 64
Born: 1960
Born: June 30
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Partly because of the desperate economic situation in the country, what were once the leading institutions of conservatism are constrained.
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My mother cared more about how you reasoned than about the conclusions you reached.
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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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One of the things that really has gone wrong in modern politics, one of the things that made Trump possible was that many people have a view of politics as something dramatic and exciting and thrilling and emotional.
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In journalism I can only tell what happened. In fiction, I can show it.
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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. And the big shock to me has been that although the president said the words, he just did not absorb the ideas. And that is the root of, maybe, everything.
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Reagan survived the Iran-Contra scandal because the elements of it that were illegal (aiding anti-communist Nicaraguans) were popular and the things that were unpopular (arming the Iranians) were quite legal.
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[In politics,] when there is no reason to speak, there is a reason not to speak.
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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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