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I should not be judged by a standard that's not applied to everyone else.

Fareed Zakaria

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Fareed Zakaria
Age: 60
Born: 1964
Born: January 20
Economist
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Bombay
Fareed Rafiq Zakaria
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France placed the state above society , democracy above constitutionalism, and equality above liberty. As a result, for much of the nineteenth century it was democratic, with broad suffrage and elections, but hardly liberal. it was certainly a less secure home for individual freedom than was England or America.
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No successful political transition can take place without leaders and movements that demand and press for freedom.
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CNN is getting smarter, and you can feel it in the stories, you can feel it in the depth with which they're covered, the kinds of people in terms of guests who are brought on air, the way in which issues are discussed.
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The great drama of Russian history has been between its state and society. Put simply, Russia has always had too much state and not enough society.
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It's not possible for two countries to be the leading dominant political power at the same time.
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I think it is quite untrue that it is standard journalistic practice to name the interviewer when quoting from an interview.
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Politics and power is a realm of relative influence.
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America's growth historically has been fueled mostly by investment, education, productivity, innovation and immigration. The one thing that doesn't seem to have anything to do with America's growth rate is a brutal work schedule.
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America washes its dirty linen in public. When scandals such as this one hit, they do sully America's image in the world. But what usually also gets broadcast around the world is the vivid reality that the United States forces accountability and punishes wrongdoing, even at the highest levels.
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Intelligence is called the world's second oldest profession for a reason. Everyone does it.
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In a world awash in debt, power shifts to creditors.
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It all looks American because America, the country that invented mass capitalism and consumerism, got there first. the impact of mass capitalism is now universal.
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Some have said that the clash between Catholicism and Protestantism illustrates the old maxim that religious freedom is the product of two equally pernicious fanaticisms, each cancelling the other out.
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If envy were the cause of terrorism, Beverly Hills [and] Fifth Avenue ... would have become targets long ago.
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Conservatives used to believe in confronting hard truths, not succumbing to comforting fairy tales. Some still do.
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I very much want to be in the business of creating content, of doing stories all over the world rather than figuring out what the business model is for 'Newsweek' on the iPad, although that's very important work as well.
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You know, when the cost of capital goes down, when credit becomes cheap, people start taking greater and greater risks.
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There is very strong historical data that suggest the way societies grow is by making large, long-term investments.
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...foreign policy is a matter of costs and benefits, not theology.
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