Quotes By David Frum

Today's Republican party is too beholden to factions generally.

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.

Journalism can go right up to the door of the room in which the decisions are made. A novel can go inside the room - and inside the character's heads.

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.

A generation ago, or two, when there were three channels, plus PBS, and when you needed - when you needed 15 million people to make a living, the media could focus on the broad country. And most people had no choice about getting political information. It was there at 6:30 whether you wanted it or not.

Republicans have to move to a point of greater unity.

A presidential speech is always the work of many hands.

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

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