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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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Fareed Zakaria
Age: 60
Born: 1964
Born: January 20
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Fareed Rafiq Zakaria
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American influence is not what it used to be.
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Whenever someone says the word community, I want to reach for an oxygen mask.
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...foreign policy is a matter of costs and benefits, not theology.
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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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