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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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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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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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Conservatives used to believe in confronting hard truths, not succumbing to comforting fairy tales. Some still do.
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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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American influence is not what it used to be.
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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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Whenever someone says the word community, I want to reach for an oxygen mask.
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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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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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In a world awash in debt, power shifts to creditors.
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Some have said that the clash between Catholicism and Protestantism illustrates the old maxim that religious freedom is the product of two equally pernicious fanaticisms, each cancelling the other out.
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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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Thanks to the Communist Party of China, we now know the path to poverty alleviation is Capitalism.
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...foreign policy is a matter of costs and benefits, not theology.
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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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Politics and power is a realm of relative influence.
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I'd be kidding if I said that I predicted the financial collapse.
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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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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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