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...foreign policy is a matter of costs and benefits, not theology.

Fareed Zakaria

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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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Strip away the usual hot air, and bin Laden's audiotape is the sign of a seriously weakened man.
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I think it is quite untrue that it is standard journalistic practice to name the interviewer when quoting from an interview.
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I'd be kidding if I said that I predicted the financial collapse.
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The situation in Syria is quite different from Libya.
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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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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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You know, when the cost of capital goes down, when credit becomes cheap, people start taking greater and greater risks.
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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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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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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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Intelligence is called the world's second oldest profession for a reason. Everyone does it.
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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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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 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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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 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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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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In a world awash in debt, power shifts to creditors.
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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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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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