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" My mom was truly an iconic figure, a great journalist and a pioneering woman who died at 54 of cancer without ever having revealed to viewers that she was ill. "

David Frum

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" 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. "

" A presidential speech is always the work of many hands. "

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" 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. "

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

" The great power the president has is that he is the most prominent person in the biggest media event on the planet. He has the attention of the nation and the world. When he speaks, everybody listens. "

" 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. "

David Frum

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You

" Republicans have to move to a point of greater unity. "

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

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

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

David Frum

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People

" 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. "

" 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. "

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

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

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

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

" 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. "

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

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

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