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Democracy is not about protests. Democracy is about meetings.
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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We all have more at stake in the rules of the game than we do in the outcomes of the game. When that changes, that's when you begin to lose democracy.
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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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Why should we not expect self-designated environmental leaders to practice what they preach?
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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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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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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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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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Donald Trump doesn't believe in much, doesn't want to do much.
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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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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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Look, the media are trapped by changes in the technology and business of their industry.
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[In politics,] when there is no reason to speak, there is a reason not to speak.
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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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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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Nobody ever won an election by spitting at his political opponents.
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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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In journalism I can only tell what happened. In fiction, I can show it.
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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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