Quotes By Fareed Zakaria

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

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.

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

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

The Berlin Wall wasn't the only barrier to fall after the collapse of the Soviet Union and the end of the Cold War. Traditional barriers to the flow of money, trade, people and ideas also fell.

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.

It's not possible for two countries to be the leading dominant political power at the same time.

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.

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.

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.

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

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.

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

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.

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.

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

The situation in Syria is quite different from Libya.

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

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.