David Frum Quotes (22 Quotes)

There are a lot of wonderful people in America who shouldn't be on the Supreme Court - and a lot who should be on the court who aren't such wonderful people.

The Bush administration since 911 has been again and again fighting to escape gravity, fighting to escape the weight of the way things have always been done. Things are now coming to a decision point, and we'll know soon.

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.

left behind a country that was more dynamic, more competitive, more tolerant, less deferential, less self-confident, less united, more socially equal, less economically equal, more expressive, more risk-averse, more sexual, less literate, less polite, less reticent.

This is the moment for which the conservative legal movement has been waiting for two decades, ... There was no reason for him to choose anyone but one of these outstanding conservatives.

Compared to, say, a prime minister of England, a president has actually astonishingly few legal powers. A prime minister of England can take England to war all by himself. He doesn't have to have a vote in Parliament, nothing. The President of the United States has to get a Declaration of War.

This moment calls for leadership from Republican senators who should go to the White House and tell it that this nomination will not work and should be withdrawn.

What the generation, the Americans who came of age in the 30s and 40s believe they lived, felt, I mean had reason to feel they lived in a world that was very much beyond their control and in which terrible things were capable of happening to you beyond your control. The depression being the obvious example.

In the week since the poll ... we've seen almost every leading conservative opinion leader, jurist, come out against this nomination.

There is no reason at all to believe either that she is a legal conservative or -- and more importantly -- that she has the spine and steel necessary to resist the pressures that constantly bend the American legal system toward the left.

No one thinks Canada is sending troops to Iraq.

The Bush administration's perception of Berlusconi has long been very positive. Bush has made it plain that he enjoyed his company and appreciated the sacrifices Italy has made in the war on terror. But maybe Bush thought Berlusconi a stronger leader than he actually is. I think that from now on, it will be very difficult for the president to confide in Berlusconi, to believe and trust him.

I knew first-hand why, for all her virtues as a human being, she would be inadequate both ideologically and in terms of qualifications for this job.

Liberals did well, and not only in the 'Michael Moore' precincts, but also in a lot of areas where their scandals should have hurt them more.

It wasn't that she didn't do the job right, ... but the way she did the job rules her out of being a person you would think of as capable of handling this enormous responsibility.

He talks to everyone, from Catholic groups, the Republican party network over the country to conservative intellectuals and the Washington media.

It has opened up a lot of unhappiness that has accumulated over time. I don't know yet how serious the consequences will be.

In his 1994 book Dead Right, ... Frustrated on economic issues and apprehensive about social issues, post-Bush conservatives look back on the accomplishments of the early Reagan years the way seventh century Romans must have looked at their aqueducts to think that we once built all this

(By the end of the '70s, many people) hungered for religion's sweets, but rejected religion's discipline wanted its help in trouble, but not the strictures that might have kept them out of trouble expected its ecstasy, but rejected its ethics dema

The talking point was 'Let's wait for the hearings because we don't know anything,' ... Well, I knew something. It was my responsibility. This was not fun. I take no pleasure in this. The long-term consequences for me are probably not going to be favorable.

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.

Post-Katrina, the Bush administration feels politically vulnerable.