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. And The Big Shock To Me Has Been That Although The President Said The Words, He Just Did Not Absorb The Ideas. And That Is The Root Of, Maybe, Everything.

-David Frum

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I Always Believed As A Speechwriter That

David Frum

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. And The Big Shock To Me Has Been That Although The President Said The Words, He Just Did Not Absorb The Ideas. And That Is The Root Of, Maybe, Everything.

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Ideas

Roots

President

I Think The Single Most Important Question Is How Do You Maximize The Number Of Children Who Grow Up In Stable Two-parent Households. We Know In All Kinds Of Ways It Makes A Huge Difference To How Kids Come Out And We Are Hardening Into A Caste Society Where Some Kids Do Better In All Kinds Of Ways Because They Have Two Parents And Others Don't.

Children

Growing Up

Kids