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If a senator calls me up and asks me what should we do in Iraq, I'm happy to talk to him.

Fareed Zakaria

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Fareed Zakaria
Age: 60
Born: 1964
Born: January 20
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Fareed Rafiq Zakaria
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Iran is a country of 80 million people, educated and dynamic. It sits astride a crucial part of the world. It cannot be sanctioned and pressed down forever. It is the last great civilization to sit outside the global order.
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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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One of the things that has been very difficult in Libya is the sense of uncertainty - the sense that they haven't actually finished the revolution, that there was still a great deal of uncertainty. That uncertainty has made Libya harder for business in terms of oil and other things as well.
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I'd be kidding if I said that I predicted the financial collapse.
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What we see today is an American economy that has boomed because of policies and developments of the 1950s and '60s: the interstate-highway system, massive funding for science and technology, a public-education system that was the envy of the world and generous immigration policies.
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In the 1990s, we were certain that Saddam Hussein had a nuclear arsenal. In fact, his factories could barely make soap.
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Thanks to the Communist Party of China, we now know the path to poverty alleviation is Capitalism.
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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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You know, when the cost of capital goes down, when credit becomes cheap, people start taking greater and greater risks.
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American influence is not what it used to be.
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I enjoy writing but I much prefer the experience of having written.
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There is a huge crisis of employment in America, in the Western world in general.
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The American consumer, even today, the weight of the American consumer in the global economy is China plus India doubled. So, it's tough to replace that.
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If we didn't have the rest of the world growing, the United States economy would be in much worse shape than it is today.
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