Quotes by David Frum

David Frum

[In politics,] when there is no reason to speak, there is a reason not to speak.

No Reason

Reason

Speak

A presidential speech is always the work of many hands.

Hands

Presidential

Speech

Anybody who imagines that an election can be won under these circumstances by banging on about William Ayers and Jeremiah Wright is … to put it mildly … severely under-estimating the electoral importance of pocketbook issues. We conservatives are sending a powerful, inadvertent message with this negative campaign against Barack Obama’s associations and former associations: that we lack a positive agenda of our own and that we don’t care about the economic issues that are worrying American voters.

Issues

Powerful

Worry

Canada has a real civil service, which the United States doesn’t have, an independent civil service. Canada also has a stronger federal system.

Independent

Real

Stronger

Civil unrest, civil turmoil is not a challenge to President Trump. It’s a resource for him. He needs to create an image of a polarized country in which the people who are against him are somehow alien or anti-system.

Challenges

Country

People

Donald Trump didn’t have a polling operation until very late in his campaign. How did he know what to do? That the Ted Cruz people leaked their polls to Trump because they were looking forward to eliminating all the other rivals, clearing the way for a Cruz-Trump fight that they were certain Cruz would win. In the end, Cruz was the last man standing, it’s true. If he had known at the beginning what he knew at the end, he might have thought twice. The Congressional Republican Party thought they could make Trump their tool to impose their very unpopular agenda. Instead, they became his tool.

Fighting

Party

Winning

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

Believe

Trump

Want

Donald Trump is behaving in an extremely provocative way toward China, having first cancelled the TPP and alienated America’s friends in the region. Same thing that he’s authorizing much riskier gambits against ISIS, having alienated many of America’s allies and friends in the region.

America

Firsts

Isis

Donald Trump is not supposed to save jobs one by one. He’s supposed to build a sound macro economy in which private enterprises create jobs.

Economy

Jobs

Sound

Donald Trump is the least unpopular thing about today’s Republican Party. I mean, the idea that a Mitch McConnell or a Paul Ryan could say, “Let’s toss Trump overboard and return to our program of plutocratic politics, health care removal, massive income tax cuts for the affluent, deregulation of finance” – if they cut loose from Donald Trump, it’s like, you know, storm in channel, continent cut off. If they cut loose from him, they are much likelier to sink.

Cutting

Mean

Party

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America

Asking Questions

Balance

Believe

Bullying

Cake

California

Cancer

Challenges

Character

Children

Competing

Conservative

Country

Crazy

Cutting

Decision

Democracy

Desperate

Differences

Disaster

Discovering

Doors

Economic

Economy

Election

Elites

Ends

Entertainment

Europe

Events

Facts

Fake

Feel Good

Fiction

Fighting

Figures

Firsts

Foxes

Fun

Genius

Goal

Government

Groups

Growing Up

Hands

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House

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Quotes by David Frum

David Frum

[In politics,] when there is no reason to speak, there is a reason not to speak.

A presidential speech is always the work of many hands.

Canada has a real civil service, which the United States doesn’t have, an independent civil service. Canada also has a stronger federal system.

Civil unrest, civil turmoil is not a challenge to President Trump. It’s a resource for him. He needs to create an image of a polarized country in which the people who are against him are somehow alien or anti-system.

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

Donald Trump is behaving in an extremely provocative way toward China, having first cancelled the TPP and alienated America’s friends in the region. Same thing that he’s authorizing much riskier gambits against ISIS, having alienated many of America’s allies and friends in the region.

Donald Trump is not supposed to save jobs one by one. He’s supposed to build a sound macro economy in which private enterprises create jobs.

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