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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.

Fareed Zakaria

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Fareed Zakaria
Age: 60
Born: 1964
Born: January 20
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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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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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If envy were the cause of terrorism, Beverly Hills [and] Fifth Avenue ... would have become targets long ago.
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Intelligence is called the world's second oldest profession for a reason. Everyone does it.
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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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I'd be kidding if I said that I predicted the financial collapse.
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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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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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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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Strip away the usual hot air, and bin Laden's audiotape is the sign of a seriously weakened man.
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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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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 should not be judged by a standard that's not applied to everyone else.
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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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The situation in Syria is quite different from Libya.
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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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Thanks to the Communist Party of China, we now know the path to poverty alleviation is Capitalism.
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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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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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I enjoy writing but I much prefer the experience of having written.
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