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David Frum Quotes

American - Public | June 30, 1960 -

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

Strong Party Fox Republican Network

A presidential speech is always the work of many hands.

Work Speech Hands Always Many

Speech writers are more vulnerable to vanity than any other group of people in Washington.

People Speech Vanity Group More Any

Events don't happen because I write a speech. I am allowed to write a speech because events are going to happen.

I Am Speech Events Write Happen Am

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

Politics Better You Names Individual

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.

Words Ideas Feel You President

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.

Service People World Rich American

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

Trapped Elite Leading Anymore

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

Situation Country Economic Because

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

Someone Who Writer Wants Thrilling

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

Journalism I Can Tell Fiction Show

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.

Character Door Decisions Journalism

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