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Fareed Zakaria
Age: 60
Born: 1964
Born: January 20
Economist
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Bombay
Fareed Rafiq Zakaria
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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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American influence is not what it used to be.
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Politics and power is a realm of relative influence.
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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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Thanks to the Communist Party of China, we now know the path to poverty alleviation is Capitalism.
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The people who watch Fox are not going to watch CNN. You know, lets be honest.
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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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Intelligence is called the world's second oldest profession for a reason. Everyone does it.
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Whenever someone says the word community, I want to reach for an oxygen mask.
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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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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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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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In a world awash in debt, power shifts to creditors.
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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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No successful political transition can take place without leaders and movements that demand and press for freedom.
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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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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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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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