Fareed Zakaria Quotes

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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Great, Down, Country

Americans have so far put up with inequality because they felt they could change their status. They didn't mind others being rich, as long as they had a path to move up as well. The American Dream is all about social mobility in a sense - the idea that anyone can make it.
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Change, Mind, Long

In a very weak economy, when you say 'cut government spending,' what you mean is you're laying off school teachers and you're de-funding various programs that put money into the economy. This means you have more unemployed people that then draw unemployment benefits and don't pay taxes.
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Money, Government, School

The tallest building in the world is now in Dubai, the biggest factory in the world is in China, the largest oil refinery is in India, the largest investment fund in the world is in Abu Dhabi, the largest Ferris wheel in the world is in Singapore.
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Investment, Building, Biggest

Culture follows power.
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Power, Culture, Follows

I should not be judged by a standard that's not applied to everyone else.
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Else, Everyone, Judged

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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Happy, Him, Talk

If there is one lesson for U.S. foreign policy from the past 10 years, it is surely that military intervention can seem simple but is in fact a complex affair with the potential for unintended consequences.
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Simple, Past, Fact

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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Today, Rest, Growing

Alaska itself is an unusual state.
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State, Alaska, Unusual

America's growth historically has been fueled mostly by investment, education, productivity, innovation and immigration. The one thing that doesn't seem to have anything to do with America's growth rate is a brutal work schedule.
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Education, Work, America

American influence is not what it used to be.
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American, Used, Influence

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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Life, Two, Succeed

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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Getting, Stories, Kinds

Conservatives used to believe in confronting hard truths, not succumbing to comforting fairy tales. Some still do.
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Hard, Used, Fairy

During the Cold War, we were interested because we were scared that Russia and the United States were going to go to war. We were scared that Russia was going to take over the world. Every country became a battleground.
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War, Country, Cold

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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Future, Growth, Order

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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Love, Country, American

I don't want to paint a picture of total gloom and doom.
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Picture, Paint, Total

I enjoy writing but I much prefer the experience of having written.
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Experience, Writing, Enjoy

I grew up in Mumbai.
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I grew up in this world where everything seemed possible.
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Everything, Possible, Seemed

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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Quite, Name, Practice

I think that liberals need to grow up.
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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.
Fareed Zakaria

Work, Business, Important

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Biography

Nationality: American

Type: Journalist

Born: January 20, 1964

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