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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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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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It's not possible for two countries to be the leading dominant political power at the same time.
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Intelligence is called the world's second oldest profession for a reason. Everyone does it.
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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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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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Whenever someone says the word community, I want to reach for an oxygen mask.
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The situation in Syria is quite different from Libya.
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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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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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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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There is very strong historical data that suggest the way societies grow is by making large, long-term investments.
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In a world awash in debt, power shifts to creditors.
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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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Politics and power is a realm of relative influence.
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I enjoy writing but I much prefer the experience of having written.
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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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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 am an American, not by accident of birth but by choice. I voted with my feet and became an American because I love this country and think it is exceptional.
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The people who watch Fox are not going to watch CNN. You know, lets be honest.
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