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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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Fareed Zakaria
Age: 60
Born: 1964
Born: January 20
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Bombay
Fareed Rafiq Zakaria
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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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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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If envy were the cause of terrorism, Beverly Hills [and] Fifth Avenue ... would have become targets long ago.
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The United States needs serious change in its fiscal, entitlement, infrastructure, immigration, and education policies, among others. And yet a polarized and often paralyzed Washington has pushed dealing with these problems off into the future, which will only make them more difficult and expensive to solve.
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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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Whenever someone says the word community, I want to reach for an oxygen mask.
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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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Thanks to the Communist Party of China, we now know the path to poverty alleviation is Capitalism.
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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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There is a huge crisis of employment in America, in the Western world in general.
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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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Having your fiscal house in order and having a more manageable macro-economic future is going to be very useful in creating growth.
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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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I enjoy writing but I much prefer the experience of having written.
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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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I'd be kidding if I said that I predicted the financial collapse.
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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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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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I am an American, not by accident of birth but by choice. I voted with my feet and became an American because I love this country and think it is exceptional.
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