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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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Generations from now, when historians write about these times, they might note that, in the early decades of the twenty-first century, the United States succeeded in its great and historic mission--it globalized the world. But along the way, they might write, it forgot to globalize itself.
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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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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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...foreign policy is a matter of costs and benefits, not theology.
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The situation in Syria is quite different from Libya.
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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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But now, we are becoming suspicious of the very things we have long celebrated - free markets, trade, immigration, and technological change. And all this is happening when the tide is going our way. Just as the world is opening up, America is closing down.
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Strip away the usual hot air, and bin Laden's audiotape is the sign of a seriously weakened man.
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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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Thanks to the Communist Party of China, we now know the path to poverty alleviation is Capitalism.
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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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Intelligence is called the world's second oldest profession for a reason. Everyone does it.
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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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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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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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Street protests in Saudi Arabia might warm our hearts, but they could easily lead to $250 a barrel oil and a global recession.
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The people who watch Fox are not going to watch CNN. You know, lets be honest.
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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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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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