Quotes from David Frum

The thing that sustains a strong Fox network is the thing that undermines a strong Republican party.

Whenever you discuss politics, it is always better to use individual names rather then the term neocon.

America under 30 is a more non-whites place than America over 60. And we know that non-whites and whites vote differently.

People who watch a lot of Fox come away knowing a lot less about important world events.

I am really and truly frightened by the collapse of support for the Republican Party by the young and the educated.

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.

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.

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.

My mother cared more about how you reasoned than about the conclusions you reached.

Nobody ever won an election by spitting at his political opponents.

There are a lot of wonderful people in America who shouldn't be on the Supreme Court - and a lot who should be on the court who aren't such wonderful people.

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

If you go on TV and say there's no other country in the world where you can be born poor and become rich, you get a huge megaphone. If you tell the truth, which is that most of the studies show actually the United States is worse than anybody except Britain in upward mobility, there is no audience for you.

Republicans originally thought that Fox worked for us and now we're discovering we work for Fox.

The elite isn't leading anymore. It's trapped.

Look, the media are trapped by changes in the technology and business of their industry.

In journalism I can only tell what happened. In fiction, I can show it.

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.

People who want to wage cultural wars ought to keep in mind that cultural views often don't move at all for a very long time, but when they move they can move very fast.

Donald Trump doesn't believe in much, doesn't want to do much.

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

What I say is I am somebody who cares about conservative ideas. I want to see them implemented in governance.

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

More Irishmen died fighting for Britain in World War I than died fighting against her in all of Ireland's bids for independence combined.