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The people who watch Fox are not going to watch CNN. You know, lets be honest.

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Fareed Zakaria
Age: 60
Born: 1964
Born: January 20
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I should not be judged by a standard that's not applied to everyone else.
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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'd be kidding if I said that I predicted the financial collapse.
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...foreign policy is a matter of costs and benefits, not theology.
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