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Intelligence is called the world's second oldest profession for a reason. Everyone does it.
Fareed Zakaria
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Fareed Zakaria
Age: 60
Born: 1964
Born: January 20
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Bombay
Fareed Rafiq Zakaria
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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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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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There is very strong historical data that suggest the way societies grow is by making large, long-term investments.
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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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Strip away the usual hot air, and bin Laden's audiotape is the sign of a seriously weakened man.
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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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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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There is a huge crisis of employment in America, in the Western world in general.
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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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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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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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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.
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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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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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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.
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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.
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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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The situation in Syria is quite different from Libya.
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I should not be judged by a standard that's not applied to everyone else.
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Politics and power is a realm of relative influence.
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