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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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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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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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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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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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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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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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In a world awash in debt, power shifts to creditors.
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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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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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There is a huge crisis of employment in America, in the Western world in general.
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American influence is not what it used to be.
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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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Conservatives used to believe in confronting hard truths, not succumbing to comforting fairy tales. Some still do.
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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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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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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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Strip away the usual hot air, and bin Laden's audiotape is the sign of a seriously weakened man.
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The people who watch Fox are not going to watch CNN. You know, lets be honest.
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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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