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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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David Frum
Age: 64
Born: 1960
Born: June 30
Blogger
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City of Toronto
David Jeffrey Frum
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The business model of the conservative media is built on two elements: provoking the audience into a fever of indignation (to keep them watching) and fomenting mistrust of all other information sources (so that they never change the channel).
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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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And that is how we intend to destroy the enemy! The superior shakes his head wearily. Young man, the Soviets are our adversary. The Navy is the enemy.
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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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Venezuela has gone from being a democratic country 15 years ago to being totally not a democracy today. Usually that de-democratization doesn't take the form of a heavy handed police state.
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One of the questions I often get asked is, Were you surprised that Trump won? I always answer the same way: I was surprised, I am surprised and I will never stop being surprised.
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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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Democracy is not about protests. Democracy is about meetings.
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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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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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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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[In politics,] when there is no reason to speak, there is a reason not to speak.
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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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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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As thrilling as it was, speechwriting is ultimately frustrating for someone who wants to be a writer.
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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.
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Impostor: How George W. Bush Bankrupted America and Betrayed the Reagan Legacy.
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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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The thing that sustains a strong Fox network is the thing that undermines a strong Republican party.
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Democracy requires you to learn how to lose as well as how to exercise power when you win. And that requires restraint all around. One of the reasons it works is because when you win you don't do things that are so upsetting to the losers that they feel like they have less, they have more to gain by turning over the system.
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