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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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Fareed Zakaria
Age: 60
Born: 1964
Born: January 20
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Politics and power is a realm of relative influence.
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America washes its dirty linen in public. When scandals such as this one hit, they do sully America's image in the world. But what usually also gets broadcast around the world is the vivid reality that the United States forces accountability and punishes wrongdoing, even at the highest levels.
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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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It's not possible for two countries to be the leading dominant political power at the same time.
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...foreign policy is a matter of costs and benefits, not theology.
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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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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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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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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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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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Conservatives used to believe in confronting hard truths, not succumbing to comforting fairy tales. Some still do.
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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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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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Strip away the usual hot air, and bin Laden's audiotape is the sign of a seriously weakened man.
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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 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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