Quote

Thanks to the Communist Party of China, we now know the path to poverty alleviation is Capitalism.

Fareed Zakaria

Change background

T
T
T

Change font

TAGS & TOPICS

Fareed Zakaria
Age: 60
Born: 1964
Born: January 20
Economist
Essayist
Journalist
Political Scientist
Reporter
Bombay
Fareed Rafiq Zakaria
Capitalism
China
Poverty
Path
Party
Alleviation
Communist
Thanks

More quotes by Fareed Zakaria

Image
If a senator calls me up and asks me what should we do in Iraq, I'm happy to talk to him.
Fareed Zakaria
Image
In a world awash in debt, power shifts to creditors.
Fareed Zakaria
Image
I enjoy writing but I much prefer the experience of having written.
Fareed Zakaria
Image
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.
Fareed Zakaria
Image
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.
Fareed Zakaria
Image
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.
Fareed Zakaria
Image
I think it is quite untrue that it is standard journalistic practice to name the interviewer when quoting from an interview.
Fareed Zakaria
Image
The people who watch Fox are not going to watch CNN. You know, lets be honest.
Fareed Zakaria
Image
You know, when the cost of capital goes down, when credit becomes cheap, people start taking greater and greater risks.
Fareed Zakaria
Image
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.
Fareed Zakaria
Image
There is a huge crisis of employment in America, in the Western world in general.
Fareed Zakaria
Image
It's not possible for two countries to be the leading dominant political power at the same time.
Fareed Zakaria
Image
Intelligence is called the world's second oldest profession for a reason. Everyone does it.
Fareed Zakaria
Image
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.
Fareed Zakaria
Image
There is very strong historical data that suggest the way societies grow is by making large, long-term investments.
Fareed Zakaria
Image
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.
Fareed Zakaria
Image
If envy were the cause of terrorism, Beverly Hills [and] Fifth Avenue ... would have become targets long ago.
Fareed Zakaria
Image
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.
Fareed Zakaria
Image
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.
Fareed Zakaria
Image
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.
Fareed Zakaria