Quotes by David Frum

“But the thought leaders on talk radio and Fox do more than shape opinion. Backed by their own wing of the book-publishing industry and supported by think tanks that increasingly function as public-...”

“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.”

“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.”

“If right and left are competing to be the biggest victim, who is competing to be the government?”

“I'm a latecomer to the environmental issue, which for years seemed to me like an excuse for more government regulation. But I can see that in rich societies, voters are paying less attention to eco...”

“Why should we not expect self-designated environmental leaders to practice what they preach?”

“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 wholl...”

“When you just look at the map of American elections, I mean, barring some truly extraordinary event that utterly destroys the credibility of the incumbent presidential party, it’s very hard to see ...”

“When liberals insist that only fascists will defend borders, then voters will hire fascists to do the job liberals won't do.”

“As President Trump is cruel, vengeful, egoistic, ignorant, lazy, avaricious, and treacherous, so we must be kind, forgiving, responsible, informed, hardworking, generous, and patriotic.”

“The thing to fear from the Trump presidency is not the bold overthrow of the Constitution, but the stealthy paralysis of governance; not the open defiance of law, but an accumulating subversion of ...”

“If conservatives become convinced that they cannot win democratically, they will not abandon conservatism. They will reject democracy.”

“Anti-Semitism itself is a conspiracy theory... Anti-Semitism differs in this respect from racism, xenophobia, misogyny, and homophobia. Those other bigotries are founded on contempt. Anti-Semitism,...”

“At the very beginning of the first Trump presidency, back in 2017, I posted on Twitter the following thought: Regular reminder that Donald Trump’s core competency is not dealmaking with powerful co...”