Fareed Zakaria quotes

Fareed Zakaria is an Indian-American journalist, political commentator, and author, best known as the host of CNN's "Fareed Zakaria GPS." His insightful analyses focus on global affairs, international relations, and American foreign policy. He continues to influence public discourse through his books, articles, and television work. Here are 51 of his quotes:

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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Strip away the usual hot air, and bin Laden's audiotape is the sign of a seriously weakened man.

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...foreign policy is a matter of costs and benefits, not theology.

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

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Alaska itself is an unusual state.

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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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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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What we see today is an American economy that has boomed because of policies and developments of the 1950s and '60s: the interstate-highway system, massive funding for science and technology, a public-education system that was the envy of the world and generous immigration policies.

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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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In a world awash in debt, power shifts to creditors.

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Street protests in Saudi Arabia might warm our hearts, but they could easily lead to $250 a barrel oil and a global recession.

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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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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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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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You know, when the cost of capital goes down, when credit becomes cheap, people start taking greater and greater risks.

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

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

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

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