David Frum Quotes

Think tanks are chiefly supposed to provide independent expertise to policymakers. But they also seek to be politically relevant.

I don't want to force my politics on my readers.

Everyone has an opinion.

Most of the change we think we see in life is due to truths being in and out of favor.

Who is to say that 5 men 10 years ago were right whereas 5 men looking the other direction today are wrong.

It's a matter of opinion on many of these issues, and there's no right or wrong. That's why we have elections; that's why we have debates. Donald Trump thinks one thing. Hillary Clinton thinks another thing.

I clearly have a point of view; I am very passionate about my point of view. I am a commentator.

For every expert there is an equal and opposite expert, but for every fact there is not necessarily an equal and opposite fact.

I'm not a journalist. I'm a pundit. I'm a commentator, I'm somebody with an opinion.

There are three sides to every argument. Yours. The other guy's. And the right side.

I rather despise claims to objectivity in philosophy; the point of view is the thing.

Your opinion is nothing but your point of view.

Democracy feeds on argument, on the discussion as to the right way forward. This is the reason why respecting the opinion of others belongs to democracy.

Description is hard. Remember that all description is an opinion about the world. Find a place to stand.

Everybody is so terribly sensitive about the things they know best.

Populists have never had a good press in Freedom's land.

One person's magical thinking is another person's cynicism.

It's not easy to see things from the middle, rather than looking down on them from above or up at them from below, or from left to right or right to left: try it, you'll see that everything changes.

Opinion polls consistently show that only about 5 percent of blacks have sensible political opinions, i.e. support the free market, individual liberty, and the end of welfare and affirmative action.

If something is opinion, put it in the opinion section: Don't put it in the facts section.

He who knows only his own side of the case (argument) knows little of that. His reasons may be good, and no one may have been able to refute them. But if he is equally unable to refute the reasons on the opposite side, if he does not so much as know what they are, he has no ground for preferring either opinion

There is a time for scientists and movie stars and those who have flown the atlantic to restrain their opinions lest they be taken more seriously than they should be.

Today I have lost one of my dearest friends, England one of her greatest men. Keith Joseph understood that it was necessary to win again the intellectual argument for freedom, and that to do this we must start from first principles. He was in many ways an unlikely revolutionary. For all his towering intellect, he was deeply humble. He spoke out boldly, however hostile the audience. Yet he hated to give offence. Above all, his integrity shone out in everything he said and did. His best memorial lies in the younger generations of politicians whom he inspired. But for me he is irreplaceable.

Everyone's right or wrong, Everyone's got an opinion, put them in a song and let me keep on living.