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

- David Frum

A presidential speech is always the work of many hands.

- David Frum

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

- David Frum

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

- David Frum

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

- David Frum

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

- David Frum

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

- David Frum

My view on candidates on money is unless it's proven that the donor stole the money, the campaign keeps the money.

- David Frum

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

- David Frum

People need to understand that in Washington, the process is the punishment.

- David Frum

A novel makes it possible to understand not just events, but the people who control the events; not only their choices, but also their motives.

- David Frum

Republicans have to move to a point of greater unity.

- David Frum

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

- David Frum

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

- David Frum

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

- David Frum

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

- David Frum

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

- David Frum

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

- David Frum

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

- David Frum

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 economic issues and more to issues of the spirit, including the environment.

- David Frum