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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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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 enjoy writing but I much prefer the experience of having written.
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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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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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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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American influence is not what it used to be.
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But as the arms-control scholar Thomas Schelling once noted, two things are very expensive in international life: promises when they succeed and threats when they fail.
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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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I'd be kidding if I said that I predicted the financial collapse.
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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.
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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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Whenever someone says the word community, I want to reach for an oxygen mask.
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I should not be judged by a standard that's not applied to everyone else.
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...foreign policy is a matter of costs and benefits, not theology.
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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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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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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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Politics and power is a realm of relative influence.
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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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