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• Culture follows power.

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  Culture

  Fareed Zakaria (2011). “The Post-American World: Release 2.0 (International Edition)”, p.85, W. W. Norton & Company

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• The great drama of Russian history has been between its state and society. Put simply, Russia has always had too much state and not enough society.

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  Drama, Russia, Too Much

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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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  India, Weight, Today

  Interview with Michael Maiello, www.forbes.com. May 19, 2009.

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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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  Business, Ipads, Creating

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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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  Country, Two, Political

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• There is a huge crisis of employment in America, in the Western world in general.

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  America, Employment, World

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• It hasn't been easy to find American citizens who are willing to pick fruit in 110 degree weather.

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  Weather, Degrees, Citizens

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• ISIS is a formidable foe, but the counter forces to it have only just begun and if these forces, the Iraqi army, the Kurdish Peshmerga, American air power, the Syrian Free Army, work in a coordinated fashion, it will start losing ground. Also, please keep in mind that ISIS does not actually hold as much ground as the many maps flashed on television keep showing. Large parts of those territories that ISIS supposedly controls are vacant desert.

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  Fashion, Army, Air

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• One of the things that has been very difficult in Libya is the sense of uncertainty - the sense that they haven't actually finished the revolution, that there was still a great deal of uncertainty. That uncertainty has made Libya harder for business in terms of oil and other things as well.

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  Business, Oil, Revolution

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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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  Nuclear, Hussein, Soap

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• Alaska itself is an unusual state.

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  Alaska, Unusual, States

  Interview with Wolf Blitzer, www.mrc.org. October 1, 2008.

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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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  Men, Air, Usual

  "Who Needs More Mud Huts?". Newsweek Article, www.khaleejtimes.com. May 03, 2006.

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• I'd be kidding if I said that I predicted the financial collapse.

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  Financial, Said, Collapse

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• I think that liberals need to grow up.

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  Growing Up, Thinking, Needs

  "Fareed Zakaria: Grow Up, Liberals!" by Nicole Belle, crooksandliars.com. August 14, 2011.

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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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  Thinking, Practice, Names

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• I grew up in this world where everything seemed possible.

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  World, Grew Up, This World

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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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  Order, Creating, House

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• I don't want to paint a picture of total gloom and doom.

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  Want, Paint, Doom

  "How to get America's groove back". Interview with Amar C. Bakshi, globalpublicsquare.blogs.cnn.com. March 4, 2011.

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• It is absolutely clear that government plays a key role, as a catalyst, in promoting long-run growth.

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  Running, Keys, Government

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• The markets are much more interested in America's long-term trajectory than they are in feeling that there is an acute short-term crisis.

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  America, Long, Feelings

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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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  Successful, Leader, Political

  Fareed Zakaria (2007). “The Future of Freedom: Illiberal Democracy at Home and Abroad (Revised Edition)”, p.70, W. W. Norton & Company

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• Media reporters have pointed out that the paragraphs in my Time column this week bear close similarities to paragraphs in Jill Lepore's essay in the April 22nd issue of The New Yorker. They are right. I made a terrible mistake. It is a serious lapse and one that is entirely my fault. I apologize unreservedly to her, to my editors at Time, and to my readers.

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  Mistake, Media, Editors

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• It's really difficult to have your voice heard and feared when you both speak softly and carry a twig.

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  Voice, Speak, Twigs

  " Fareed Zakaria GPS", www.cnn.com. July 27, 2014.

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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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  Technological Change, Opening Up, America

  Fareed Zakaria (2009). “The Post-American World: And The Rise Of The Rest”, p.68, Penguin UK

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• I'm largely in favor of financial reform.

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  Reform, Favors, Financial

  "Case against Goldman is 'very weak'". CNN Interview, www.cnn.com. April 22, 2010.

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