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Intelligence is called the world's second oldest profession for a reason. Everyone does it.

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Fareed Zakaria
Age: 60
Born: 1964
Born: January 20
Economist
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Bombay
Fareed Rafiq Zakaria
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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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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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American influence is not what it used to be.
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It's not possible for two countries to be the leading dominant political power at the same time.
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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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The people who watch Fox are not going to watch CNN. You know, lets be honest.
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There is a huge crisis of employment in America, in the Western world in general.
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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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In the 1990s, we were certain that Saddam Hussein had a nuclear arsenal. In fact, his factories could barely make soap.
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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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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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In a world awash in debt, power shifts to creditors.
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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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There is very strong historical data that suggest the way societies grow is by making large, long-term investments.
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I should not be judged by a standard that's not applied to everyone else.
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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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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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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 great drama of Russian history has been between its state and society. Put simply, Russia has always had too much state and not enough society.
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I enjoy writing but I much prefer the experience of having written.
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