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Fareed Zakaria
Age: 60
Born: 1964
Born: January 20
Economist
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Bombay
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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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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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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 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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Intelligence is called the world's second oldest profession for a reason. Everyone does it.
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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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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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If envy were the cause of terrorism, Beverly Hills [and] Fifth Avenue ... would have become targets long ago.
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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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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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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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The people who watch Fox are not going to watch CNN. You know, lets be honest.
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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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In a world awash in debt, power shifts to creditors.
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...foreign policy is a matter of costs and benefits, not theology.
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Whenever someone says the word community, I want to reach for an oxygen mask.
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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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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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