Quotes By Fareed Zakaria

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

The Chinese economy's still not that much of a consumer economy.

The world is changing very profoundly.

In the 1990s, we were certain that Saddam Hussein had a nuclear arsenal. In fact, his factories could barely make soap.

American influence is not what it used to be.

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.

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

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

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.

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

When you're failing, there's a very powerful incentive to put ideology aside and just do what seems to work.

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

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

I think it is quite untrue that it is standard journalistic practice to name the interviewer when quoting from an interview.

Politics and power is a realm of relative influence.

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

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.

There is very strong historical data that suggests the way societies grow is by making large, long-term investments.

I'm largely in favor of financial reform.

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

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

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.

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.

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.

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

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.

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

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.

I grew up in Mumbai.