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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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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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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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...foreign policy is a matter of costs and benefits, not theology.
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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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Intelligence is called the world's second oldest profession for a reason. Everyone does it.
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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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You know, when the cost of capital goes down, when credit becomes cheap, people start taking greater and greater risks.
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There is a huge crisis of employment in America, in the Western world in general.
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In a world awash in debt, power shifts to creditors.
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Politics and power is a realm of relative influence.
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The United States needs serious change in its fiscal, entitlement, infrastructure, immigration, and education policies, among others. And yet a polarized and often paralyzed Washington has pushed dealing with these problems off into the future, which will only make them more difficult and expensive to solve.
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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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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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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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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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I should not be judged by a standard that's not applied to everyone else.
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The people who watch Fox are not going to watch CNN. You know, lets be honest.
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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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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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