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Fareed Zakaria
Age: 60
Born: 1964
Born: January 20
Economist
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Bombay
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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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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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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 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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The people who watch Fox are not going to watch CNN. You know, lets be honest.
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In a world awash in debt, power shifts to creditors.
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The situation in Syria is quite different from Libya.
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Democracy is also a single ideology, and, like all such templates, it has its limits. what works in a legislature might not work in a corporation.
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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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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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There is very strong historical data that suggest the way societies grow is by making large, long-term investments.
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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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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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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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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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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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If envy were the cause of terrorism, Beverly Hills [and] Fifth Avenue ... would have become targets long ago.
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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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Whenever someone says the word community, I want to reach for an oxygen mask.
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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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