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“You've worked hard all your life. You've paid Medicare taxes for almost 30 years. But under the Republican plan, Medicare won't be there for you. Instead of Medicare as it exists now, under the Republican plan you'll get a voucher that will pay as little as half your Medicare costs when you turn 65—and as little as a quarter in your 80s. And all so that millionaires and billionaires can have a huge tax cut.”
-- David Frum

#Cutting #Years #Cost
“Why be thrifty when your old age and health care are provided for, no matter how profligate you act in your youth? Why be prudent when the state insures your bank deposits, replaces your flooded-out house, buys all the wheat you can grow? ... Why be diligent when half of your earnings are taken from you and given to the idle?”
-- David Frum

#Taken #House #Age
“In journalism I can only tell what happened. In fiction, I can show it.”
-- David Frum

#Fiction #Journalism #Shows
“A presidential speech is always the work of many hands.”
-- David Frum

#Hands #Presidential #Speech
“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

#America #Vote
“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

#People #Choices #Events
“As thrilling as it was, speechwriting is ultimately frustrating for someone who wants to be a writer.”
-- David Frum

#Want #Frustrating
“Events don't happen because I write a speech. I am allowed to write a speech because events are going to happen.”
-- David Frum

#Writing #Speech #Events
“I am really and truly frightened by the collapse of support for the Republican Party by the young and the educated.”
-- David Frum

#Party #Support #Republican
“We, as conservative intellectuals, should not be in the business of making excuses for bad parliamentary decisions by Republican leaders in Congress.”
-- David Frum

#Decision #Leader #Conservative
“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.”
-- David Frum

#Country #Media #Two
“Those who seem to despise half of America will never be trusted to govern any of it. Those who cherish only the country's past will not be entrusted with its future.”
-- David Frum

#Country #Past #America
“But the thought leaders on talk radio and Fox do more than shape opinion. Backed by their own wing of the book-publishing industry and supported by think tanks that increasingly function as public-relations agencies, conservatives have built a whole alternative knowledge system, with its own facts, its own history, its own laws of economics.”
-- David Frum

#Book #Thinking #Agency
“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

#Mom #Cancer #Figures
“If we say something often enough, we come to believe it. We don't usually delude others until after we have first deluded ourselves.”
-- David Frum

#Honesty #Believe #Firsts
“One can shape history as much through the facts one omits as through the facts one includes.”
-- David Frum

#History #Shapes #Facts
“Maybe it's true that people with less extreme views who are also interested in public affairs have been driven out by a marketplace that doesn't offer them anything of the tone they want to listen to.”
-- David Frum

#Views #People #Want
“Look, the media are trapped by changes in the technology and business of their industry.”
-- David Frum

#Technology #Media #Looks
“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

#Character #Doors #Decision
“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.”
-- David Frum

#Country #United States #Mobility
“If right and left are competing to be the biggest victim, who is competing to be the government?”
-- David Frum

#Government #Victim #Competing
“Partly because of the desperate economic situation in the country, what were once the leading institutions of conservatism are constrained.”
-- David Frum

#Country #Desperate #Economic
“The elite isn't leading anymore. It's trapped.”
-- David Frum
“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.”
-- David Frum

#People #World #Pay
“Whenever you discuss politics, it is always better to use individual names rather then the term neocon.”
-- David Frum

#Names #Use #Individual
“My view on candidates on money is unless it's proven that the donor stole the money, the campaign keeps the money.”
-- David Frum

#Views #Campaigns #Donors
“People need to understand that in Washington, the process is the punishment.”
-- David Frum

#Punishment #People #Needs
“Crown Prince Rupprecht, the heir to the throne of Bavaria who commanded the army group facing the British at the Somme, was the senior direct lineal heir of James Stuart, the Old Pretender of 1715. Had there been any Jacobites left in Britain in 1916, they would have had to regard this south German prince as their rightful king.”
-- David Frum

#Senior #Kings #Army
“Life, as the signs in the liquor stores say, is too short to drink bad wine. And summer is too short to read bad books.”
-- David Frum

#Summer #Book #Wine
“What I say is I am somebody who cares about conservative ideas. I want to see them implemented in governance.”
-- David Frum

#Ideas #Who Cares #Want

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