David Frum

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

— David Frum

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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

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

— David Frum

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

— David Frum

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

— David Frum

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

— David Frum

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

— David Frum

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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. ↗

— David Frum

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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

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