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Whenever someone says the word community, I want to reach for an oxygen mask.

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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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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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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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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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