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Fareed Zakaria
Age: 60
Born: 1964
Born: January 20
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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 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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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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I should not be judged by a standard that's not applied to everyone else.
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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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Strip away the usual hot air, and bin Laden's audiotape is the sign of a seriously weakened man.
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One of the things that has been very difficult in Libya is the sense of uncertainty - the sense that they haven't actually finished the revolution, that there was still a great deal of uncertainty. That uncertainty has made Libya harder for business in terms of oil and other things 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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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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Conservatives used to believe in confronting hard truths, not succumbing to comforting fairy tales. Some still do.
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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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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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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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You know, when the cost of capital goes down, when credit becomes cheap, people start taking greater and greater risks.
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American influence is not what it used to be.
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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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