Fareed Zakaria Quotes - Page 3

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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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• Whenever someone says the word community, I want to reach for an oxygen mask.

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  Oxygen, Community, Want

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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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  Air, Issues, Cnn

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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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• 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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• 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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• 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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• Politics and power is a realm of relative influence.

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  Influence, Realms, Relative

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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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• 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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• The tallest building in the world is now in Dubai.

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  Dubai, World, Ferris Wheels

  Fareed Zakaria (2011). “The Post-American World: Release 2.0 (International Edition)”, p.10, W. W. Norton & Company

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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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• The situation in Syria is quite different from Libya.

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  Different, Libya, Situation

  "Q&A with Fareed Zakaria on Gadhafi's death". The CNN Interview, globalpublicsquare.blogs.cnn.com. October 20, 2011.

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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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  Home, America, Democracy

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• Politically Incorrect was the name of the show Bill Maher hosted in the 1990s. It's also an apt description of the man himself. Now host of - HBO's hit show Real Time, I find Maher to be one of the sharpest observers of American politics and life in general out there. It doesn't mean I always agree with him. I always find him funny, though.

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  Real, Mean, Men

  "Fareed Zakaria: 'Bill Maher One of the Sharpest Observers of American Politics Out There'". www.newsbusters.org. December 5, 2010.

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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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• 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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• 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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• 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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• 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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• 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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  Iraq, Should, Call Me

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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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  United States, Would Be, 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 grew up in this world where everything seemed possible.

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  World, Grew Up, This World

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