Quotes By Fareed Zakaria

I'm largely in favor of financial reform.

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

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.

Having your fiscal house in order and having a more manageable macro-economic future is going to be very useful in creating growth.

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.

The American dream seems to be thriving in Europe not at home.

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.

If a senator calls me up and asks me what should we do in Iraq, I'm happy to talk to him.

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.

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

I grew up in Mumbai.

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.

Alaska itself is an unusual state.

Culture follows power.

I enjoy writing but I much prefer the experience of having written.

The situation in Syria is quite different from Libya.

One of the great dilemmas for America will be that American companies will do very well while American workers might not.

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.

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

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.

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.

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.

If you go to India the roads are being built almost entirely with private sector money and by the private sector. If you look at many, many countries in Europe that's how they're doing it.

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.

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.

My friends all say I'm going to be Secretary of State. But I don't see how that would be much different from the job I have now.

I think that liberals need to grow up.

The Web forces me to be disciplined and not to waste time - but before the Web was invented, there were plenty of opportunities to do that anyway.

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

Politics and power is a realm of relative influence.