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Politics and power is a realm of relative influence.

Fareed Zakaria

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Fareed Zakaria
Age: 60
Born: 1964
Born: January 20
Economist
Essayist
Journalist
Political Scientist
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Bombay
Fareed Rafiq Zakaria
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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 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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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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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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Strip away the usual hot air, and bin Laden's audiotape is the sign of a seriously weakened man.
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Whenever someone says the word community, I want to reach for an oxygen mask.
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Iran is a country of 80 million people, educated and dynamic. It sits astride a crucial part of the world. It cannot be sanctioned and pressed down forever. It is the last great civilization to sit outside the global order.
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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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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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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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...foreign policy is a matter of costs and benefits, not theology.
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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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There is a huge crisis of employment in America, in the Western world in general.
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I should not be judged by a standard that's not applied to everyone else.
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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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You know, when the cost of capital goes down, when credit becomes cheap, people start taking greater and greater risks.
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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 situation in Syria is quite different from Libya.
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Intelligence is called the world's second oldest profession for a reason. Everyone does it.
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