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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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Fareed Zakaria
Age: 60
Born: 1964
Born: January 20
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Bombay
Fareed Rafiq Zakaria
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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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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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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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American influence is not what it used to be.
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There is a huge crisis of employment in America, in the Western world in general.
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I enjoy writing but I much prefer the experience of having written.
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America washes its dirty linen in public. When scandals such as this one hit, they do sully America's image in the world. But what usually also gets broadcast around the world is the vivid reality that the United States forces accountability and punishes wrongdoing, even at the highest levels.
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Intelligence is called the world's second oldest profession for a reason. Everyone does it.
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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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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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It's not possible for two countries to be the leading dominant political power at the same time.
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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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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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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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I'd be kidding if I said that I predicted the financial collapse.
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Politics and power is a realm of relative influence.
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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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No successful political transition can take place without leaders and movements that demand and press for freedom.
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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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