Quotes By David Frum

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.

Partly because of the desperate economic situation in the country, what were once the leading institutions of conservatism are constrained.

We, as conservative intellectuals, should not be in the business of making excuses for bad parliamentary decisions by Republican leaders in Congress.

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.

Think tanks do have points of view, and they are absolutely entitled to defend them.

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

There is no right to work in a think tank, and these are very privileged positions.

As thrilling as it was, speechwriting is ultimately frustrating for someone who wants to be a writer.

The big winners under the American fiscal system are the rich, who pay some of the lowest taxes anywhere in the world; the old, who are the main beneficiaries of the American social service state; farmers, rural people. These are Republican constituencies.

The five million people who watch cable news are the political nation, the people who really care.